Mosquito Control and GIS – The Hamilton County Experience Dan Walker, MPH March 8, 2006
Mosquito Control Reason: Program initiated in response to West Nile Virus Purpose: To develop a program to prevent arbovirus disease transmission to the human population
Mosquito Life Cycle Larviciding Adulticiding
Locating Breeding Sites Resident complaints Aerial photography Field work
No Stick Pins GeoExplorer 3, GeoXT: collect data GPS Pathfinder: process data ArcView: analyze/manage data POSSE: manage office/field workflow
Source: CDC 2006
Data Collection Data related to the breeding site is entered into a workflow management software Join is created in ArcMap to view details that were entered in software Relate is created to view records from the breeding site
Adulticiding Determine when to adulticide from monitoring and surveillance Mosquitoes that test positive for WNV or SLE Dead bird surveillance Large trap collections of nuisance mosquitoes
Acknowledgements Joe Seig – Hamilton County ISS Larry Stout – Hamilton County ISS Barry McNulty – H.C. Health Department
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