REMOTE SENSING METHODS IN MEDICAL GEOGRAPHIC STUDIES OF AN AREA

Abstract

Potential applications of remote sensing imagery in medical geographical studies of the USSR are surveyed in very general terms, as are basic principles which should govern its use in such studies. Identification of basic causes of disease and illness is based on the development of indirect interpretation of space imagery. Among indirect interpretation keys of potential value are vegetation state, length of vegetative period, duration of snow cover, degree of urbanization, and building density, particularly in assessing health risks from pollution, allergic reactions, cancers, and diseases based on insect vectors of transmission. Translated by Paul B. Slater, Santa Barbara, CA 93103 from: Geografiya i prirodnyye resursy, 1988, No. 2, pp. 162-165.