Want to learn more about Rift Valley Fever and how we can use remote sensing technologies for studying infectious diseases? We've put together some resources to get you started.

Rift Valley Fever

This video from our partners at the International Livestock Research Institute is a great introduction to RVF, discussing the signs and symptoms of the disease, as well as how, when, and why it spreads:

This video covers the ways in which we can try to prevent and control RVF:

The World Health Organisation and US Centre for Disease Control also have great resources if you would like to read more about the disease.

Remote-sensing and Machine Learning for Public Health

Other work from our team

Earth Observation imagery is being used more and more in public health research - for example mapping diseases and their hosts and vectors and identifying environmental features that facilitate infection.

This video discusses some of the ways in which we're using low-cost, remote technologies to fight disease globally, or you can read more about these applications here and here:

The MACONDO networkis a collaboration between researchers from LSHTM in the UK and UCPH in Peru dedicated to using low-cost drone imagery to inform vector control programmes and help combat malaria, as well as producing resources to help others to implement similar technlogies in their research.