TITLE:
Integrating a Trimble Recon X 400 MHz Intel PXA255 Xscale CPU® Mobile Field Data Collection System Using Differentially Corrected Global Positioning System Technology and a Real-Time Bidirectional Actionable Platform within an ArcGIS Cyberenvironment for Implementing Mosquito Control
AUTHORS:
Benjamin G. Jacob, Robert J. Novak
KEYWORDS:
Trimble Recon X, Vector Control Management System (VCMS), Anopheles arabiensis, QuickBird Imagery
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Remote Sensing,
Vol.3 No.3,
September
29,
2014
ABSTRACT: In this research, we
determined the feasibility of using a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) as a
mobile field data collection system by monitoring mapping and regressing
digitized sub-meter resolution polygons of multiple, malaria, mosquito, Anopheline arabiensis s.s.,
aquatic, larval, habitat covariates. The system employed QuickBird raster
imagery displayed on a Trimble Recon X 400 MHz Intel PXA255 Xscale CPU®.
The mobile mapping platform was employed to identify specific geographical
locations of treated and untreated seasonal An.
arabiensis s.s. aquatic
larval habitats in Karima rice-village complex in the Mwea Rice Scheme, Kenya.
As data pertaining to An.
arabiensis s.s. larval
habitats were entered, all treated and untreated rice paddies within a 2 km
buffer of the agro-village, riceland-complex, epidemiological, study site were
viewed and managed on the PDA.