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Moving NASA Remote Sensing Data to the GIS Environment for Health StudiesThere has been an increasing demand by the health community for improved data on many different environmental factors relevant to the links between the environment and disease occurrence and transmission. These data are important for GIS-based monitoring, risk mapping, and surveillance of epidemiological parameters on a large number of different spatial, temporal, and spectral resolutions. Accordingly, NASA is developing new approaches to data collection and distribution in order to improve access to multiple sources of data streams to increase spatial and temporal coverage. Methods are being developed to incorporate different, scalable capabilities to handle multiple data sources by adding, deleting and replacing components as required as well as associated tools for their management. An approach has been to search for innovative solutions focused on the creation, use and manipulation of data stored in many different archives. These include data transformation and combination as well as data and information tools that can assist the public health and science community to use existing and anticipated products in new and flexible ways. This presentation will provide an inventory of geophysical parameters derived from satellite remote sensing sensors that are useful for GIS-based public health studies. The presentation will also discuss the physical and scientific limitations of access to and use of these data for health applications such as resolution and format differences, lack of software interoperability, data access problems. Finally, there will be a summary of the recent steps the NASA program has taken to bring NASA-generated satellite products to a wider range of users in the GIS community.
Document ID
20040012989
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Vicente, Gilberto A.
(George Mason Univ. Fairfax, VA, United States)
Maynard, Nancy G.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
August 21, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2003
Subject Category
Geosciences (General)
Meeting Information
Meeting: Pennsylvania Geographic Information Systems Conference: Data Access/Software Interoperability
Location: Harrisburg, PA
Country: United States
Start Date: June 24, 2003
End Date: June 25, 2003
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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