Japan’s efforts to promote global health using satellite remote sensing data from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency for prediction of infectious diseases and air quality
| Title: | Japan’s efforts to promote global health using satellite remote sensing data from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency for prediction of infectious diseases and air quality |
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| Authors: | Tamotsu Igarashi, Akihiko Kuze, Shinichi Sobue, Aya Yamamoto, Kazuhide Yamamoto, Kei Oyoshi, Keiji Imaoka, Toru Fukuda |
| Source: | Geospatial Health, Vol 8, Iss 3 (2014) |
| Publisher Information: | PAGEPress Publications, 2014. |
| Publication Year: | 2014 |
| Collection: | LCC:Geography (General) |
| Subject Terms: | Earth observation satellites, environment, infectious diseases, air quality, respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease, Japan, Geography (General), G1-922 |
| More Details: | In this paper we review the status of new applications research of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for global health promotion using information derived from Earth observation data by satellites in cooperation with inter-disciplinary collaborators. Current research effort at JAXA to promote global public health is focused primarily on the use of remote sensing to address two themes: (i) prediction models for malaria and cholera in Kenya, Africa; and (ii) air quality assessment of small, particulate matter (PM2.5), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and ozone (O3). Respiratory and cardivascular diseases constitute cross-boundary public health risk issues on a global scale. The authors report here on results of current of a collaborative research to call attention to the need to take preventive measures against threats to public health using newly arising remote sensing information from space. |
| Document Type: | article |
| File Description: | electronic resource |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 1827-1987 1970-7096 |
| Relation: | http://www.geospatialhealth.net/index.php/gh/article/view/299; https://doaj.org/toc/1827-1987; https://doaj.org/toc/1970-7096 |
| DOI: | 10.4081/gh.2014.299 |
| Access URL: | https://doaj.org/article/5443b736ca6b4a3f93a236f5e3d3c9ea |
| Accession Number: | edsdoj.5443b736ca6b4a3f93a236f5e3d3c9ea |
| Database: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| ISSN: | 18271987 19707096 |
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| DOI: | 10.4081/gh.2014.299 |
| Published in: | Geospatial Health |
| Language: | English |