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Remote control sampling?

In a talk I gave at Duke today, I highlighted some previous work I’ve done on developing a sampling frame using high-resolution satellite imagery.

Hi-res satellite imagery is great, but very expensive. One possible alternative was featured on several major news outlets a few weeks ago: a helium balloon rigged with [...]

Spying on Cholera

Vibrio cholerae bacteria. Source: Kirn et al. (2000).

From Science Daily:

Cholera outbreaks may soon be predicted using satellite sensors, paving the way for preemptive medicine in countries that suffer epidemics…

 
Speaking at a meeting of the Society for General Microbiology, Rita Colwell, former director of the National Science Foundation, describes how satellite sensors can be used [...]