Einsatz eines Geographischen Informationssystems zur Untersuchung der Verbreitung einer Rinderkrankheit in Afrika
East Coast fever (ECF)kills hundreds of thousands of cattle in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa each year. To focus safe and cost-effective disease control programmes, the distribution of cattle and buffalo, the main hosts of the disease, as well as the present and potential distribution of the...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Copernicus Publications
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| Series: | Geographica Helvetica |
| Online Access: | http://www.geogr-helv.net/45/168/1990/gh-45-168-1990.pdf |
| Summary: | East Coast fever (ECF)kills hundreds of thousands of cattle in
Eastern, Central and Southern Africa each year. To focus safe
and cost-effective disease control programmes, the distribution of cattle and buffalo, the main hosts of the disease, as well
as the present and potential distribution of the tick which carries
ECF have to be considered. Maps of the relevant Parameters describing the present Situation of ECF were digitized by
the United Nations Environment Programme in Nairobi in
conjunction with the International Laboratory for Research
On Animal Disease. Potentially suitable areas for the tick were
determmed by interpolating and modeling data from meteorological stations – using altitude information to improve the
results of the interpolation – and incorporating satellite
derived Vegetation data. By comparing the map of potential
areas with the present distribution of ECF, tick and host, critical
regions may be identified, where the disease is not yet
present, but into which it could spread. |
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| ISSN: | 0016-7312 2194-8798 |