Can space-based technologies help manage and prevent pandemics?

Asrar, Farhan M.; Saint-Jacques, David; Chapman, Helena J.; Williams, Dave; Ravan, Shirish; Upshur, Ross; Clark, Jonathan B.

doi:10.1038/s41591-021-01485-5

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“…research (14,15). In this scenario, space technologies are offering several optics of public and global health in terms of monitoring infectious disease, disasters, and climate change (14,16). For example, space or satellite technologies offered satellite imagery to analyze the Ebola virus outbreak, disease spread, and emergency plans (14,16).…”

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“…However, this was conducted by traditional mapping and this tool was used for plague control. Visualization and mapping analytics are continuously evolving in the health sector and disease control plan of every country that has resulted in the advancement of information technology and spatial science for infectious disease and epidemiology research ( 14 , 15 ). In this scenario, space technologies are offering several optics of public and global health in terms of monitoring infectious disease, disasters, and climate change ( 14 , 16 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Visualization and mapping analytics are continuously evolving in the health sector and disease control plan of every country that has resulted in the advancement of information technology and spatial science for infectious disease and epidemiology research ( 14 , 15 ). In this scenario, space technologies are offering several optics of public and global health in terms of monitoring infectious disease, disasters, and climate change ( 14 , 16 ). For example, space or satellite technologies offered satellite imagery to analyze the Ebola virus outbreak, disease spread, and emergency plans ( 14 , 16 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In this scenario, space technologies are offering several optics of public and global health in terms of monitoring infectious disease, disasters, and climate change ( 14 , 16 ). For example, space or satellite technologies offered satellite imagery to analyze the Ebola virus outbreak, disease spread, and emergency plans ( 14 , 16 ). Therefore, the growing health burden with the improvements in different interfaces and tools offers visualizations of disease data in time and space ( 13 , 17 ).…”

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Perspectives from remote sensing to investigate the COVID-19 pandemic: A future-oriented approach

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As scientific technology and space science progress, remote sensing has emerged as an innovative solution to ease the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. To examine the research characteristics and growth trends in using remote sensing for monitoring and managing the COVID-19 research, a bibliometric analysis was conducted on the scientific documents appearing in the Scopus database. A total of 1,509 documents on this study topic were indexed between 2020 and 2022, covering 165 countries, 577 journals, 5239 institutions, and 8,616 authors. The studies related to remote sensing and COVID-19 have a significant increase of 30% with 464 articles. The United States (429 articles, 28.42% of the global output), China (295 articles, 19.54% of the global output), and the United Kingdom (174 articles, 11.53%) appeared as the top three most contributions to the literature related to remote sensing and COVID-19 research. Sustainability, Science of the Total Environment, and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health were the three most productive journals in this research field. The utmost predominant themes were COVID-19, remote sensing, spatial analysis, coronavirus, lockdown, and air pollution. The expansion of these topics appears to be associated with cross-sectional research on remote sensing, evidence-based tools, satellite mapping, and geographic information systems (GIS). Global pandemic risks will be monitored and managed much more effectively in the coming years with the use of remote sensing technology.

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