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Vector-borne disease risk
Vector-borne disease risk mapping uses Earth observation to monitor environmental conditions that make vectors more likely to breed, survive, or transmit pathogens.[1][2]
Satellites do not observe malaria, dengue, or mosquitoes directly at operational scale. They observe predictors: temperature, rainfall and wetness, vegetation, standing-water habitat, humidity proxies, land cover, and population exposure context.[3][4]
These layers feed surveillance and early-warning systems. VectorSurv, for example, combines surveillance data with environmental surfaces to support mosquito-control and public-health decisions, while Malaria Atlas Project publishes geospatial malaria risk and covariate datasets.[5][6]
The topic is therefore a modelling topic, not a detection topic. EO layers indicate where conditions are suitable; health ministries still need case reporting, entomological sampling, intervention records, and local epidemiology to confirm risk.[1]
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- [1]Vector-borne diseases fact sheetagency doc2024-09-262026-06-08
- [2]Surveillance of Arthropod Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases Using Remote Sensing Techniques: A Reviewpeer reviewed2007-08-312026-06-08
- [3]Malaria Modeling and Surveillanceagency doc-2026-06-08
- [4]Mosquito Bites and Satellites: Tracking Mosquito-Borne Disease with Earth Dataagency doc2021-07-132026-06-08
- [5]VectorSurv - Vectorborne Disease Surveillance Systemoperator marketing-2026-06-08
- [6]Malaria Atlas Project Data Exploreroperator engineering-2026-06-08
- [7]The Malaria Atlas Project - Earth Engine Data Catalogcommunity-2026-06-08
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Vector-borne disease risk. EO-Atlas, SpectraWorks B.V. https://eo-atlas.org/topics/vector-borne-disease (CC BY 4.0)
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@misc{eoatlas:topics:vector-borne-disease,
title = {Vector-borne disease risk},
author = {{EO-Atlas}},
publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
url = {https://eo-atlas.org/topics/vector-borne-disease}
}