CNES STRATEGY TOWARDS OPERATIONAL TOOLS FOR TRANSMISSIBLE DISEASES Antonio GÜELL, Murielle LAFAYE, Cécile VIGNOLLES Centre National d’ Etudes Spatiales GEO Workshop, 27-29 th July 2010, PARIS THE FRENCH SPACE AGENCY CITIZEN APPLICATIONS: a new strategy Ressources: water, agriculture,energy Security/Defence, Health (tele-medicine and tele-epidemiology) Transportation, Positionning, Education. Présentation CNES 2007 V 2.0 2 STRATEGY BASED ON INNOVATION AND GLOBAL CHANGE ■ Have crazy and baroque ideas ! ■ Want to change ! ■ Dare to take risks, ■ Have a multidisciplinary approach, ■ Have an integrative approach, Présentation CNES 2007 V 2.0 3 WHY CNES AND TRANSMISSIBLE DISEASES? La Terre, planète bleue L’océan en mouvement Le climat ENSO Le réchauffement climatique Cryosphère Océanographie opérationnelle El Niño/La Niña (observed by TOPEX/Poséidon NASA/CNES) Présentation CNES 2007 V 2.0 4 TELE – EPIDEMIOLOGY CONCEPT (concept patented, 2009) ■ Predicting and monitoring of geographical evolution of epidemics ( in relation with climate changes) using mathematical modelling with a multidisciplinary approach ■ Using 4 types of parameters: Environmental x Space (atmospheric, oceanic, land-cover observations...) x In-situ (hydrology, in-situ observations…) Human/animal clinical Entomological (vectors) Socio-economical data Présentation CNES 2007 V 2.0 5 INDICES FROM SPACE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH ■ Vegetation Indices (NDVI) ■ Sea Surface Temperature Indices ■ Altimetry ■ Chlorophyll and Ocean Color ■ Moisture Indices ■ Rainfall Indices ■ Infrared Radiation Index ■ Urbanization Présentation CNES 2007 V 2.0 6 CNES PARTNERSHIP TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE SERVICES ■ Environement/Climate/Health Program Lobbying national European International ■ Pilot projects in cooperation - Senegal : RVF, Urban malaria in Dakar to be extended to Mali, Niger, Burkina-Faso - Argentina: dengue to be extended to Bolivia, Paraguay, Brasil, - Algeria: malaria,leischmaniosis, - India: dengue (in discussion) ■ Multidisciplinary approach to develop and validate new space products ■ Satellite as a complementary tool to be combined with existing tools ■ Transfert scientific development towards operational service providers ■ Encourage business development using teledetection for health Présentation CNES 2007 V 2.0 7 Tele – epidemiology has social impacts ■ T.E. Allows continuous monitoring, contribute to Early Warning Systems (EWS), and disease prevention associated with environmental perturbations and fluctuations, ■ Integrated approach can be applied to other conditions: Nosocomial infections in hospitals, Biological conflicts Flu fevers Présentation CNES 2007 V 2.0 8 Tele – epidemiology including space data is an efficient tool for Public Health ■ Original and cost-effective approach, ■ Integrating satellite products, sentinel networks, and in-situ infrastructures, ■ Key hardware and software already operational Présentation CNES 2007 V 2.0 9 « GLOBAL PROBLEMS REQUIRE GLOBAL INFORMATION WHICH SATELLITES CAN NOW PROVIDE » From Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems in Epidemiology, 2000, S.I. Hay, S.E. Randolph, D.J. Rogers Editors, in Advances in Parasitology, p 357 And THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION Overall danger Présentation CNES 2007 V 2.0 The meal Coffee-break 10