Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems in Epidemiology: 47 (Advances in Parasitology) - Hardcover

Rogers, D.J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0120317478 ISBN 13: 9780120317479

Publisher: Academic Press Inc, 2000

Synopsis

Studies using remote sensing (RS), obtaining ecological information from a distance, combined with geographical information systems (GIS), can substantially increase understanding of many diseases affecting humans and their livestock. This volume covers the theoretical and statistical background, research and operational initiatives, as well as future perspectives. Reviews of current work on malaria, trypanosomiasis, helminths and tick-borne disease will allow researchers to see how these techniques might be useful for their own work.

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Review

"This book is produced to the high standard associated with Advances and thoughfully illustrated, including 18 colour plates.. To the non-specialist, all this information (about GIS) can be a little bewildering to assemble and digest but this book provides a good tour through it... A better forum between biological and physical scientists is a good thing. This seminal book goes some way to bridging the n divide."divide." - Transactions

About the Author

Professor David Rollinson is a Merit Research Scientist at the Natural History Museum in London, where he leads a research team in the Wolfson Wellcome Biomedical Laboratories and directs the WHO Collaborating Centre for schistosomiasis. He has had a long fascination with parasites and the diseases that they cause, this has involved him in many overseas projects especially in Africa. He is on the WHO Expert Advisory Panel of parasitic diseases, the editor of Advances in Parasitology and a former President of the World Federation of Parasitologists. His research group uses a multidisciplinary approach, which combines detailed molecular studies in the laboratory with ongoing collaborative studies in endemic areas of disease, to explore the intriguing world of parasites in order to help control and eliminate parasitic diseases.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0120317478
• ISBN 13: 9780120317479
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 340
• Editor: Hay S. I., Randolph S. E., Rogers David J.