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3.4.2. “Remote sensing” approach
The Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) (French Space
Agency) has developed a concept that relies on a determinist approach
to relationships between the climate, environment and health and on
an original, tailored space package [CNE 08, LAC 07]. The
conceptual approach is based on the study of the mechanisms favoring
the appearance and propagation of infectious diseases by linking
several disciplines such as environmental sciences, climate study, the
biology of organisms, microbiology, ecology, etc.
As schematized below by Cécile Vignolles, responsible for the
remote sensing program at CNES, this approach consists of three steps
(Figure 3.2).
Figure 3.2. Conceptual remote sensing approach
by Cécile Vignolles, CNES 2008