• DocumentCode
    78966
  • Title

    Satellite Imagery Analysis: What Can Hospital Parking Lots Tell Us about a Disease Outbreak?

  • Author

    Butler, Patrick ; Ramakrishnan, N. ; Nsoesie, Elaine O. ; Brownstein, John S.

  • Author_Institution
    Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
  • Volume
    47
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    Apr. 2014
  • Firstpage
    94
  • Lastpage
    97
  • Abstract
    Data mined from satellite imagery could serve as an early indicator of socially disruptive events like epidemics, especially in countries with limited surveillance resources.
  • Keywords
    data mining; diseases; geophysical image processing; hospitals; remote sensing; surveillance; traffic engineering computing; data mining; disease outbreak; epidemics; hospital parking lot; satellite imagery analysis; socially disruptive events; surveillance resources; Data mining; Data models; Diseases; Hospitals; Image processing; Knowledge discovery; Measurement; Predictive models; Satellite communication; data mining; digital epidemiology; discovery analytics; image processing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computer
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9162
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MC.2014.100
  • Filename
    6798554
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=78966