Tele epidemiology is to study the interaction between environment, climate and health. As regards monitoring epidemics, merging health data with environmental and climatic data gathered on the ground or by observation satellites (data on water, air,vegetation and soil) can be used to identify the conditions likely to cause diseases to develop and to gain a deeper understanding of the mechanisms involved in the spread of disease.
Using space-based techniques in this field is a major step forward in the battle to prevent diseases transmitted through water, the air or carriers (malaria,Rift Valley Fever,yellow fever, dengue…) which cause millions of deaths each year across the world. More details at Tele epidemiology at CNES
The ultimate aim of these projects is to set up early-warning systems to predict epidemics
Project | - | Diseases | - | Country |
Adapt FVR | RFV | Senegal | ||
AMMA Health | RFV, Malaria | |||
AMMA RVF Senegal | RVF | Senegal | ||
EEOS | Malaria | |||
MATE | Dengue | Argentina | ||
Paluclim | Malaria | Sahelian Country | ||
Palusat | Malaria | Senegal | ||
POLCA | Sahelian Country | |||
Vibrio | Vibrios diseases | Mediterranean region |