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Table 1 Remote sensing data sourcesa

From: Modelling age-heterogeneous Schistosoma haematobium and S. mansoni survey data via alignment factors

Data type

Source

Date

Temporal

resolution

Spatial

resolution

LST

MODIS/Terra1

2000-2009

8-days

1 km

NDVI

MODIS/Terra1

2000-2009

16-days

1 km

Land cover

MODIS/Terra1

2001-2004

Yearly

1 km

Rainfall

ADDS2

2000-2009

10-days

8 km

Altitude

DEM3

-

-

1 km

Water bodies

HealthMapper4

-

-

Unknown

  1. a All data accessed on 3 February 2011
  2. 1 Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) (https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/lpdaac/products/modis_products_table)
  3. 2 African Data Dissemination Service (ADDS) (http://earlywarning.usgs.gov/fews/africa/index.php)
  4. 3 Digital elevation model (DEM) (http://edc.usgs.gov/#/Find_Data/Products_and_Data_Available/gtopo30/hydro/)
  5. 4 HealthMapper database (http://gis.emro.who.int/PublicHealthMappingGIS/HealthMapper.aspx)
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