FROM PREDICTING MOSQUITO HABITAT TO MALARIA SEASONS USING REMOTELY-SENSED DATA - PRACTICE, PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES

Remote sensing techniques are becoming increasingly important for iden tifying mosquito habitats, investigating malaria epidemiology and assi sting malaria control. Here, Simon Hay, Bob Snow and David Rogers revi ew the development of these techniques, from aerial photographic ident ification of mosquito larval habitats on the local scale through to th e space-based survey of malaria risk over continental areas using incr easingly sophisticated airborne and satellite-sensor technology. they indicate that previous constraints to uptake are becoming less relevan t and suggest how control might be avoided.