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Advanced Earth Observation and Informatics Technologies for Early Study and Warning of Mosquito-Transmitted Diseases

Gerasimos Koulouris

Project Manager at EDGE in Earth Observation Sciences

Athens, Greece

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development of a West Nile Virus (WNV) surveillance and early warning system by leveraging Earth Observation data derived from new generation satellites and advanced information technologies.The motivation of the project is the fact that WNV incidences emerge with an increasing tendency in Greece and in Europe due to changing climatic and ecological conditions, global travel and human behavior that influence the seasonal and geographic distribution of mosquitoes’ population and, therefore, the transmission of the pathogen.

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