DocumentCode :
576206
Title :
Incidence prediction of communicable diseases after the Wenchuan earthquake using remote sensing
Author :
Zheng, Sheng ; Cao, Chunxiang ; Li, Guanghe ; Lu, Shilei ; Xu, Min ; Jia, Huicong ; Li, Lin
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Remote Sensing Applic., State Key Lab. of Remote Sensing Sci., Beijing Normal Univ., Beijing, China
fYear :
2012
fDate :
22-27 July 2012
Firstpage :
927
Lastpage :
930
Abstract :
Wenchuan in Sichuan Province, China, was hit by an 8.0 magnitude earthquake on 12 May 2008. Thousands of buildings were destroyed and thousands of people were hurt. History tells us that after earthquakes, floods and other natural disaster, infectious diseases often outbreaks. In this study, with the help of spatial information technologies including remote sensing and geography information system, we acquired environmental factors including population, earthquake intensity, route distance, direct distance, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Water Index, and Digital Elevation Model for each township in Anxian after earthquake. Then we constructed a Back Propagation Neural Network to train environmental factors and incidence of communicable diseases, and predicted the incidence of communicable diseases. The results showed that incidence of communicable diseases after earthquake could be predicted using remote sensing to some extent.
Keywords :
backpropagation; diseases; earthquakes; geographic information systems; neural nets; remote sensing; AD 2008 05 12; Anxian; Back Propagation Neural Network; China; Digital Elevation Model; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index; Normalized Difference Water Index; Sichuan Province; Wenchuan earthquake; communicable disease; direct distance; earthquake intensity; floods; geography information system; incidence prediction; natural disaster; remote sensing; route distance; spatial information technology; Diseases; Earthquakes; Educational institutions; Environmental factors; Remote sensing; Sociology; Statistics; Back Propagation Neural Network; Wenchuan earthquake; communicable diseases; remote sensing;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Munich
ISSN :
2153-6996
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1160-1
Electronic_ISBN :
2153-6996
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6351404
Filename :
6351404
Link To Document :
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