Spatial mapping and prediction of Plasmodium falciparum infection risk among school-aged children in Côte d’Ivoire

Table 1 Data sources and properties of the environmental variables used to estimate Plasmodium falciparum risk among school-aged children in Côte d’Ivoire

		Temporal	Temporal	Spatial
Data type	Source	resolution	coverage	resolution
Normalized difference vegetation index	MODIS/Terra^a	16 days	2011	1 km
Day land surface temperature	MODIS/Terra^a	8 days	2011	1 km
Night land surface temperature	MODIS/Terra^a	8 days	2011	1 km
Land cover	MODIS/Terra^a	Year	2011	1 km
Rainfall	ADDS^b	10 days	2011	8 km
Rainfall coefficient of variation	Derived from rainfall	10 days	2011	1 km
Altitude	DEM^c	–	–	1 km
Freshwater bodies	HealthMapper^d	–	–	–

^aModerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). Available at: https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/ (accessed: 1 October 2012)
^bAfrica Data Dissemination Service (ADDS). Available at: http://earlywarning.usgs.gov/fews/datadownloads/Continental%20Africa/Dekadal%20RFE (accessed: 1 October 2012)
^cDigital elevation model (DEM). Available at: http://eros.usgs.gov/ (accessed: 1 October 2012)
^dHealthMapper database. Available at: http://health-mapper-release-5.software.informer.com/ (accessed: 1 October 2012)

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