Help from above: outer space and the fight against Ebola

Asrar, Farhan M.; Asrar, Suhail; Clark, Jonathan B.; Kendall, D. J. W.; Ngo-Anh, Thu Jennifer; Brazeau, Stéphanie; Hulsroj, Peter; Williams, Richard S.

doi:10.1016/s1473-3099(15)00153-x

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“…This is particularly important in Canada, as some of these remote regions, such as the Arctic, are being disproportionately affected by climate change. (73). The benefits of using Earth observation images and their derivatives are summarized in Table 2.…”

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Using Earth observation images to inform risk assessment and mapping of climate change-related infectious diseases

Kotchi¹,

Bouchard²,

Ludwig³

et al. 2019

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The number of human cases of several climate-related infectious diseases, including tick-and mosquito-borne diseases, has increased in Canada and other parts of the world since the end of the last century. Predicting and mapping the risks associated with these diseases using environmental and climatic determinants derived from satellite images is an emerging method that can support research, surveillance, prevention and control activities and help to better assess the impacts of climate change in Canada. Earth observation images can be used to systematically monitor changes in the Earth's surface and atmosphere at different scales of time and space. These images can inform estimation and monitoring of environmental and climatic determinants, and thus disease prediction and risk mapping. The current array of Earth observation satellites provides access to a large quantity and variety of data. These data have different characteristics in terms of spatial, temporal and thematic precision and resolution. The objectives of this overview are to describe how Earth observation images may inform risk assessment and mapping of tick-borne and mosquito-borne diseases in Canada, their potential benefits and limitations, the implications and next steps.

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“…The Charter has been operational since the year 2000. It was activated to support responses related to the outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa in 2014 (73). This marked the first time the Charter was activated for the management of an infectious disease.…”

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Using Earth observation images to inform risk assessment and mapping of climate change-related infectious diseases

Kotchi¹,

Bouchard²,

Ludwig³

et al. 2019

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“…Space assets have already had a role in environ mental monitoring and have also been used in areas of health care for disaster management, 8 public health emergencies, and infectious disease outbreaks. 9 Currently, several satellites, including GOSAT (Japan), Aura (USA), MetOp (Europe), and Sentinel 4 and 5 (Europe), monitor environmental pollutants and elements. These satellites might play a role in monitoring pollutants of hydraulic fracturing activities because of their ability to measure pollutants such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and particulate matters 2•5 and 10.…”

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Space technologies for monitoring health and environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing

Asrar¹,

Wen

Nasseri

et al. 2018

The Lancet Planetary Health

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“…This cross-sectional aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic warrants analysis which approves an interdisciplinary method. Earth Observation (EO) epidemiology is a pragmatic tool that is progressively being used by stakeholders and clinicians for zoonotic infections ( 14 , 22 , 23 ). EO epidemiology greatly helped in mapping out the transmission of the Ebola virus among animals and served as an innovative tool in risk communication, mapping, and categorizing vulnerable populations.…”

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

Mehmood

Bao

Mushtaq

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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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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Help from above: outer space and the fight against Ebola

Cited by 12 publications

References 3 publications

Using Earth observation images to inform risk assessment and mapping of climate change-related infectious diseases

Using Earth observation images to inform risk assessment and mapping of climate change-related infectious diseases

Space technologies for monitoring health and environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing

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

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