Introduction to Geoinformatics in Public Health

Bhunia, Gouri Sankar; Shit, Pravat Kumar

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-01680-7_1

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“…It can be used for monitoring, surveying, or conducting a risk analysis of vector-borne diseases [100]. Disease mapping once believed to be a final frontier for remote sensing [101] has come a long way with better spatio-temporal availability of remote sensing platforms and socially sensed datasets [102,103].…”

Section: Remote Sensing For Disease Control and Preventionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Remote sensing has been used during studies done on malaria [102], Lyme disease [100], Rift Valley fever, and the COVID-19 pandemic [101,[104][105][106][107][108][109], among others [101,104,[107][108][109]. However, it should be noted that these studies have only been done post facto, as a way to verify whether different remote sensing indicators matched the actual occurrence on the ground.…”

Section: Remote Sensing For Disease Control and Preventionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Remote Sensing for International Peace and Security: Its Role and Implications

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Remote sensing technology has seen a massive rise in popularity over the last two decades, becoming an integral part of our lives. Space-based satellite technologies facilitated access to the inaccessible terrains, helped humanitarian teams, support complex emergencies, and contributed to monitoring and verifying conflict zones. The scoping phase of this review investigated the utility of the role of remote sensing application to complement international peace and security activities owing to their ability to provide objective near real-time insights at the ground level. The first part of this review looks into the major research concepts and implementation of remote sensing-based techniques for international peace and security applications and presented a meta-analysis on how advanced sensor capabilities can support various aspects of peace and security. With key examples, we demonstrated how this technology assemblage enacts multiple versions of peace and security: for refugee relief operations, in armed conflicts monitoring, tracking acts of genocide, providing evidence in courts of law, and assessing contravention in human rights. The second part of this review anticipates future challenges that can hinder the applicative capabilities of remote sensing in peace and security. Varying types of sensors pose discrepancies in image classifications and issues like cost, resolution, and difficulty of ground-truth in conflict areas. With emerging technologies and sufficient secondary resources available, remote sensing plays a vital operational tool in conflict-affected areas by supporting an extensive diversity in public policy actions for peacekeeping processes.

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Section: Remote Sensing For Disease Control and Preventionmentioning

confidence: 99%