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#           Eyes on Earth Episode 76 – ECOSTRESS and Disease Risk      

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Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we learn how measurements from space can track risk of mosquito-borne disease.

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**Summary**: Spaceborne sensors orbit hundreds of miles over our heads. Even the most advanced among them struggle to capture high-resolution imagery of individual human beings. Mosquitos, of course, are far smaller than we are. Clearly, sensors on a satellite or space station can’t see them. Even so, these sensors can gather a host of information that helps to understand the movements and behaviors of these pesky little disease vectors, which are responsible for at least a million deaths a year. Mosquitos are more active under certain environmental conditions, for example, and those conditions can be tracked at wide scales from above. Changes to the land’s surface can also make it easier for mosquitos to proliferate. On this episode, we learn how a sensor onboard the International Space Station was used to calculate West Nile virus risk in California’s San Joaquin River Valley.

**Guests:**Anna Boser, PhD student, University of California-Santa Barbara; Andy MacDonald, UC-Santa Barbara Earth Research Institute

**Host:** John Hult

**Producer:** John Hult

**Release date:** June 27, 2022

**More on remote sensing and disease risk:**
                                - ECOSTRESS Mission
                                - LP DAAC homepage
                                - Amazon deforestation drives malaria transmission, and malaria burden reduces forest clearing
                                - Micro-climate to macro-risk: mapping fine scale differences in mosquito-borne disease risk using remote sensing

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#### Timothy A. Glynn

##### Chief of Staff

Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center 

tglynn@usgs.gov

605-594-6046

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Eyes on Earth is a podcast on remote sensing, Earth observation, land change and science, brought to you by the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center. In this episode, we learn how measurements from space can track risk of mosquito-borne disease.

View Media Details

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Download and Transcript Access

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**Summary**: Spaceborne sensors orbit hundreds of miles over our heads. Even the most advanced among them struggle to capture high-resolution imagery of individual human beings. Mosquitos, of course, are far smaller than we are. Clearly, sensors on a satellite or space station can’t see them. Even so, these sensors can gather a host of information that helps to understand the movements and behaviors of these pesky little disease vectors, which are responsible for at least a million deaths a year. Mosquitos are more active under certain environmental conditions, for example, and those conditions can be tracked at wide scales from above. Changes to the land’s surface can also make it easier for mosquitos to proliferate. On this episode, we learn how a sensor onboard the International Space Station was used to calculate West Nile virus risk in California’s San Joaquin River Valley.

**Guests:**Anna Boser, PhD student, University of California-Santa Barbara; Andy MacDonald, UC-Santa Barbara Earth Research Institute

**Host:** John Hult

**Producer:** John Hult

**Release date:** June 27, 2022

**More on remote sensing and disease risk:**
                                - ECOSTRESS Mission
                                - LP DAAC homepage
                                - Amazon deforestation drives malaria transmission, and malaria burden reduces forest clearing
                                - Micro-climate to macro-risk: mapping fine scale differences in mosquito-borne disease risk using remote sensing

### Contacts

#### Timothy A. Glynn

##### Chief of Staff

Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center 

tglynn@usgs.gov

605-594-6046

### Explore Search

                      - Remote Sensing
                      - Climate
                      - Information Systems
                      - Maps and Mapping
                      - LP DAAC
                      - mosquitos
                      - west nile virus
                      - ECOSTRESS
                      - Malaria
                      - International Space Station
                      - podcasts
                      - Eyes on Earth
                      - Eyes on Earth. remote sensing

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