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
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;
DOI :
10.1109/MC.2014.100
