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Table 1 Attributes of the natural environmental factors

From: The impact of environmental factors on human echinococcosis epidemics: spatial modelling and risk prediction

Category

Factor

Description

Data source

Climate

T

Temperature

National Earth System Science Data Center, National Science & Technology Infrastructure of China (http://www.geodata.cn)

Pre

Precipitation

Rh

Relative humidity

Sun

Sunshine duration

Geographical landscape

DEM

Digital elevation model

Resource and Environment Data Cloud Platform (http://www.resdc.cn/DataList.aspx)

NDVI

Normalized difference vegetation index

GrassR

Proportion of grassland to total land use area

ForestR

Proportion of forest to total land use area

CultivatedR

Proportion of cultivated land to total land use area