Examples are malaria, lymphatic filariasis, African trypanosomiasis, dengue and yellowfever.
In particular, vegetation indices produced by high-resolution radiometry have been correlated with mortality rates and population density of tsetse flies. The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration is sponsoring research on the use of satellite information for vector-borne disease monitoring and control. Integrated systems combining meteorological, topographic, and epidemiological data must become more accessible and simpler to use. Climate change may first have impact on vector-borne diseases at the margins of their current distributions. Climate change might also affect the altitude at which vector-borne diseases are found, and high altitude sites in Kenya, Rwanda, Costa Rica, and Argentina may be good sites for monitoring.