Predicting Disease Outbreaks from Space
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- Visualizations by:
- Helen-Nicole Kostis
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These visualizations were created for the May 18, 2012 Library of Congress Talk Predictiding Disease Outbreaks from Space. In this talk NASA scientist Assaf Anyamba, will present how using remote-sensing data we can see links among weather, diseases and famine.
An early warning system more than a decade in development successfully predicted the 2006-2007 outbreak of the deadly Rift Valley Fever (RVF) in East Africa and subsequent outbreaks in Sudan (2007) and South Africa (2008-2011). RVF is a deadly hemorrhagic disease transmitted by mosquitoes that infects livestock and human populations episodically. An international team of research scientists, public-health professionals, agricultural specialists and military personnel had worked for a decade to successfully predict when and where an outbreak of RVF would occur.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animators
- Helen-Nicole Kostis (USRA) [Lead]
- Ernie Wright (USRA)
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
- Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC)
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Scientist
- Assaf Anyamba (USRA)
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Project support
- Jennifer Small (SSAI)
Datasets used in this visualization
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Aqua Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly
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CPC ARC (Climate Prediction Center (CPC) Africa Rainfall Estimate Climatology)
ID: 709Input data used for operational rainfall estimates are from 4 sources: 1) Daily GTS rain gauge data for up to 1000 stations 2) AMSU microwave satellite precipitation estimates up to 4 times per day 3) SSM/I satellite rainfall estimates up to 4 times per day 4) GPI cloud-top IR temperature precipitation estimates on a half-hour basis.
This dataset can be found at: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/fews/AFR_CLIM/afr_clim.shtml
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