title: Using satellite remote sensing and household survey data to assess human health and nutrition response to environmental change.
abstract: Climate change and degradation of ecosystem services functioning may threaten the ability of current agricultural systems to keep up with demand for adequate and inexpensive food and for clean water, waste disposal and other broader ecosystem services. Human health is likely to be affected by changes occurring across multiple geographic and time scales. Impacts range from increasing transmissibility and the range of vectorborne diseases, such as malaria and yellow fever, to undermining nutrition through deleterious impacts on food production and concomitant increases in food prices. This paper uses case studies to describe methods that make use of satellite remote sensing and Demographic and Health Survey data to better understand individual-level human health and nutrition outcomes. By bringing these diverse datasets together, the connection between environmental change and human health outcomes can be described through new research and analysis.
authors.affiliation: Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Code 618, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA.
authors.forename: Molly E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.affiliation: University of Utah, 260 S. Central Campus Dr., Rm. 270, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA.
authors.forename: Kathryn
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Grace
authors.affiliation: Purdue University, 403 West State St., West Lafayette, IN 47907 USA ; Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, 1432 Norway.
authors.forename: Gerald
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Shively
authors.affiliation: Westat, 1600 Research Boulevard, Rockville, MD 20850 USA.
authors.forename: Kiersten B
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.affiliation: Sigma Space Corp, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA GSFC), Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Carroll
keywords: DHS; Environment; Health; NDVI; Nutrition; Survey