“…Malaria and schistosomiasis, for example, are both environmentally sensitive, vector-borne diseases, which provide striking examples of the steady progress and increasing sophistication in the geospatial health arena (Cross et al, 1984;Bavia et al, 1999;Craig et al, 1999;Clements et al, 2006;Hay et al, 2009;Thomson et al, 2010;Zhou et al, 2010). In 1995, the NASA Ames Center for Health Applications of Aerospace Related Technologies (CHAART) was established by Byron Wood and Louisa Beck, who set about promoting applications in health by way of inhouse research, a small-grants programme and widely publicizing the medical potential of the new technolo-gies through symposia and workshops Wood et al, 2000).…”