Review of Geospatial Technology for Infectious Disease Surveillance: Use Case on COVID-19

• Published in: Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing Vol. 48; no. 8; pp. 1121 - 1138
• Main Authors: Saran, Sameer, Singh, Priyanka, Kumar, Vishal, Chauhan, Prakash
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi Springer India 01.08.2020; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Capacity development; Case studies; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; COVID-19 infection; Decision making; disease surveillance; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Geographic information systems; Geography; Infectious diseases; Mapping; Public health; Remote sensing; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry; Review; Review Article; Surveillance; COVID-19; Mathematical epidemiology; Geospatial technology; Citizen Science; Public health

This paper discusses on the increasing relevancy of geospatial technologies such as geographic information system (GIS) in the public health domain, particularly for the infectious disease surveillance and modelling strategies. Traditionally, the disease mapping tasks have faced many challenges—(1)...