Satellite Hyperspectral Imagery to Support Tick-Borne Infectious Diseases Surveillance.

ABSTRACT: This study proposed the use of satellite hyperspectral imagery to support tick-borne infectious diseases surveillance based on monitoring the variation in amplifier hosts food sources. To verify this strategy, we used the data of the human rickettsiosis occurrences in southeastern Brazil, region in which the emergence of this disease is associated with the rising capybara population. Spatio-temporal analysis based on Monte Carlo simulations was used to identify risk areas of human rickettsiosis and hyperspectral moderate-resolution imagery was used to identify the increment and expansion of sugarcane crops, main food source of capybaras. In general, a pixel abundance associated with increment of sugarcane crops was detected in risk areas of human rickettsiosis. Thus, the hypothesis that th

SUBMITTER: Polo G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4658071 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature