Delimitation of kala-azar risk areas in the district of Vaishali in Bihar (India) using a geo-environmental approach

Delimitation of kala-azar risk areas in the district of Vaishali in Bihar (India) using a geo-environmental approach

Remote sensing and geographical information technologies were used to discriminate areas of high and low risk for contracting kala-azar or visceral leishmaniasis. Satellite data were digitally processed to generate maps of land cover and spectral indices, such as the normalised difference vegetation...

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Main Authors: Gouri Sankar Bhunia, Nandini Chatterjee, Vijay Kumar, Niyamat Ali Siddiqui, Rakesh Mandal, Pradeep Das, Shreekant Kesari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ) 2012-08-01
Series:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Subjects:
kala-azar
GIS
NDVI
wetness index
geo-environmental risk model
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762012000500007&lng=en&tlng=en

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