GC21K:
People and Pixels 20th Anniversary: Advances in the Use of Remote Sensing in Social Science, Public Health, and Air Quality Applications I

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Session ID#: 34516

Session Description:
In the twenty years since the publication of People and Pixels: Linking Remote Sensing and Social Science (NRC, 1998) there have been many advances in social science and health applications of remote sensing due to the growing array of social science and satellite data sources and access to computational cyberinfrastructure for the analysis of large spatio-temporal datasets. Simultaneously, as long term changes in the Earth’s climate and environment have begun to have real impacts on public health and air quality, the ability to model potential health outcomes has improved. This session will showcase current trends in health and air quality applications as well as land cover and hazards research through an exploration of satellite, socioeconomic and biophysical data. It will also explore Geohealth and how using NASA data benefits health providers/researchers who need environmental data to study and understand the geographic, environmental, and meteorological differences in disease.
Primary Convener:  Alex M de Sherbinin, Columbia University of New York, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia Climate School, Palisades, United States
Conveners:  Sue M Estes, NASA/UAH, Earth Science, Huntsville, AL, United States, John Haynes, NASA Headquarters, Earth Action Program, Washington, United States and Ali H Omar, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
Chairs:  Alex M de Sherbinin, Columbia University of New York, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia Climate School, Palisades, United States and Sue M Estes, NASA/UAH, Earth Science, Huntsville, AL, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Alex M de Sherbinin, Columbia University of New York, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia Climate School, Palisades, United States
Index Terms:

1699 General or miscellaneous [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Where we were in 1998, and how this legacy shaped the next 20 years (Invited) (221902)
Emilio Federico Moran, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States
Exploring the Utility of Model-based Meteorology Data for Heat-Related Health Research and Surveillance (Invited) (260567)
Fuyuen Yip, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, UNITED STATES and Ambarish Vaidyanathan, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health, Atlanta, United States
PREDICT: A next generation platform for near real-time prediction of cholera (224163)
Dr. Antarpreet Singh Jutla, PhD, University of Florida, Environmental Engineering Sciences, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, Sonia Aziz, Moravian College, Economics, Bethlehem, PA, United States, Ali S Akanda, University of Rhode Island, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Narragansett, RI, United States, Munirul Alam, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Gias U Ahsan, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Anwar Huq, University of Maryland College Park, Maryland Pathogen Research Institute, College Park, United States and Rita R Colwell, University of Maryland College Park, Institute of Advanced Computer Studies, College Park, United States
An Operational System for Surveillance and Ecological Forecasting of West Nile Virus Outbreaks (291790)
Michael C Wimberly1, Justin Kyle Davis2, Geoffrey Vincent3, Andrea Hess2 and Michael B Hildreth4, (1)South Dakota State University, Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence, Brookings, SD, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma, Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, Norman, OK, United States, (3)South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, United States, (4)South Dakota State University, Department of Biology and Microbiology, Brookings, SD, United States
People in Pixels: Gridding the World’s Population (Invited) (213646)
Andrea E Gaughan1, Forrest R. Stevens2, Catherine Linard3, Alessandro Sorichetta4 and Andrew J Tatem4, (1)University of Louisville, Dept. of Geographic and Environmental Sciences, Louisville, United States, (2)University of Louisville, Dept. of Geographic and Environmental Sciences, Louisville, KY, United States, (3)Free University of Brussells, Geography, Brusells, Belgium, (4)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
A National Assessment of Changes in Flood Exposure in the United States (222096)
Nina Lam, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Yi Qiang, University of Hawaii, Geography, Honalulu, United States, Heng Cai, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States and Lei Zou, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, United States
Beyond Population Distribution: Enhancing Sociocultural Resolution from Remote Sensing (284573)
Budhendra L Bhaduri and Amy Rose, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States

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