Unmanned aerial vehicles for surveillance and control of vectors of malaria and other vector-borne diseases

F Mechan, Z Bartonicek, D Malone, RS Lees - Malaria Journal, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has expanded rapidly in ecological
conservation and agriculture, with a growing literature describing their potential applications …

Use of unmanned ground vehicle systems in urbanized zones: A study of vector Mosquito surveillance in Kaohsiung

YX Chen, CY Pan, BY Chen, SW Jeng… - PLOS Neglected …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Dengue fever is a vector-borne disease that has become a serious global public health
problem over the past decade. An essential aspect of controlling and preventing mosquito …

Use of Unmanned Aerial vehicles for building a House Risk Index of Mosquito-Borne viral diseases

V Muñiz-Sánchez, KM Valdez-Delgado… - Machines, 2022 - mdpi.com
The Vector Control Program in Mexico has developed operational research strategies to
identify entomological and sociodemographic parameters associated with dengue …

Community acceptability of dengue fever surveillance using unmanned aerial vehicles: A cross-sectional study in Malaysia, Mexico, and Turkey

E Annan, J Guo, A Angulo-Molina, WFW Yaacob… - Travel medicine and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Surveillance is a critical component of any dengue prevention and control program. There is
an increasing effort to use drones in mosquito control surveillance. Due to the novelty of …

MM4Drone: A multi-spectral image and mmwave radar approach for identifying mosquito breeding grounds via aerial drones

KTY Mahima, M Weerasekara, KD Zoysa… - … on Pervasive Computing …, 2022 - Springer
Mosquitoes spread disases such as Dengue and Zika that affect a significant portion of the
world population. One approach to hamper the spread of the disases is to identify the …

Development and Field Testing of a Wireless Data Relay System for Amphibious Drones

A Suetsugu, H Madokoro, T Nagayoshi, T Kikuchi… - Drones, 2024 - mdpi.com
Amphibious (air and water) drones, capable of both aerial and aquatic operations, have the
potential to provide valuable drone applications in aquatic environments. However, the …

unmanned aerial vehicle for wide area larvicide spraying (WALS) using Vectobac® WG at Kota Kinabalu, Sabah

MC Steven, PD Solomon, P Arumugam, R Rasali… - The Journal of Infection …, 2024 - jidc.org
Introduction: Given the stagnating progress in the fight against dengue in Kota Kinabalu,
there is an urgent need to use other strategies to complement the existing vector control …

[PDF][PDF] Uso de drones para la asociación de factores de riesgo con la abundancia de mosquitos Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus) Diptera: Culicidae, en áreas de transmisión …

KM Valdez Delgado - 2023 - eprints.uanl.mx
Se estima que cerca del 60% del territorio nacional presenta condiciones que favorecen la
transmisión de las ETV, aunado a lo anterior y paulatinamente, aumentan los lugares con …

Using First-Person View Drones through Head-Mounted Displays: Are They Suitable for Education?

T Sivenas, G Koutromanos… - 2022 8th International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study examined in-service teachers' perceptions regarding spatial presence, simulator
sickness and usability of First-Person view drones through Head-Mounted Displays in order …

Uncrewed Aerial Spray Systems For Mosquito Control: Efficacy Studies For Space Sprays

JAS Bonds, BK Fritz, H Thistle… - Journal of the …, 2023 - meridian.allenpress.com
Achieving an appropriate droplet size distribution for adulticiding has proved problematic for
unmanned aerial spray systems (UASSs). The high-pressure pumping systems utilized on …