FOREST AND ROAD PATTERNS USED AS AN INDICATOR FOR LYME DISEASE
Investigators:
Durland Fish, PI, Carrie A. Howard
Yale School of Medicine,
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
Description:
Risk of Lyme disease in New England is closely related to where people live.
The trend of suburban living in recent years and the transition of farmland
to forests in the Northeast have been a leading factor to the emergence of
Lyme disease in this area.
The goal of this projects is to qunatify peri-domestic risk by analyzing the
proportion of forest near roads as an indicator for human risk on a county
level. Landsat MSS imagery will be used to classify a forest/non-forest image
that will be analyzed with a road coverage (USGS digital line graphs).
18 May 1998