Journal:Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s public-health monitoring and analysis platform: A satellite-derived environmental information system supporting epidemiological study
| Full article title | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s public-health monitoring and analysis platform: A satellite-derived environmental information system supporting epidemiological study |
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| Journal | Geospatial Health |
| Author(s) | Oyashi, Kei; Mizukami, Yosei; Kakuda, Ryosuke; Kobayashi, Yusuke; Kai, Hiroki; Tadono, Takeo |
| Author affiliation(s) | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan |
| Primary contact | Email: ohyoshi dot kei at jaxa dot jp |
| Year published | 2019 |
| Volume and issue | 14(1) |
| Page(s) | 717 |
| DOI | 10.4081/gh.2019.717 |
| ISSN | 1970-7096 |
| Distribution license | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International |
| Website | https://geospatialhealth.net/index.php/gh/article/view/717 |
| Download | https://geospatialhealth.net/index.php/gh/article/view/717/772 (PDF) |
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Abstract
Since the 1970s, Earth-observing satellites collect increasingly detailed environmental information on land cover, meteorological conditions, environmental variables, and air pollutants. This information spans the entire globe, and its acquisition plays an important role in epidemiological analysis when in situ data are unavailable or spatially and/or temporally sparse. In this paper, we present the development of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Public-health Monitoring and Analysis Platform, a user-friendly, web-based system providing environmental data on shortwave radiation, rainfall, soil moisture, the normalized difference vegetation index, aerosol optical thickness, land surface temperature and altitude. This system has been designed so that users would be able to download and utilize data without the need for additional data processing. The website allows interactive exchange, and users can request data for a specific geographic location and time using the information gained for the purpose of epidemiological analysis.
Keywords: earth-observing satellites, infection diseases, environmental information; online database; geospatial data; JPMAP, JAXA
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