Volume 19, Number 5—May 2013
Dispatch
Mapping Environmental Suitability for Malaria Transmission, Greece
Bertrand Sudre, Massimiliano Rossi, Wim Van Bortel, Kostas Danis, Agoritsa Baka, Nikos Vakalis, and Jan C. Semenza
Table
Environmental suitability mapping of malaria, Greece, 2009–2012*
| Variable† | Rank |
|---|---|
| Digital elevation model | 4.4 |
| LST day amplitude 2 | 5.5 |
| NDVI phase 2 | 7.0 |
| LST nighttime amplitude 2 | 7.3 |
| LST nighttime mean | 8.1 |
| LST day, maximum | 8.1 |
| LST day, mean | 8.3 |
| LST day phase 2 | 8.6 |
| NDVI, maximum | 8.7 |
| LST night, maximum | 8.9 |
*Classification of 10 variables average rank (1 to 10) for all bootstrapped cycles. Data sources are as follows: Global 30 Arc-Second Elevation Dataset (GTOPO30), 2005 (http://eros.usgs.gov); CORINE Land Cover 2000 seamless vector data, version 15 (Aug 2011), European Environment Agency, 2011 (www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/corine-land-cover-2000-clc2000-seamless-vector-database-3); Raster data on population density using CORINE Land Cover 2000 inventory, European Environment Agency. 2009 (www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/population-density-disaggregated-with-corine-land-cover-2000-2).
†LST, Land Surface Temperature; NDVI, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index.
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