Semi-supervised water tank detection to support vector control of emerging infectious diseases transmitted by Aedes Aegpyti [Research Data]

It breeds in small artificial containers such as rainwater tanks and can be characterized by a short flight range. The resulting high spatial variability of abundance is challenging to model.

Therefore, we tested an approach to map water tank density as a spatial proxy for urban Aedes Aegypti habitat suitability. Water tank density mapping was performed by a semi-supervised self-training approach based on open accessible satellite imagery for the city of Rio de Janeiro. We ran a negative binomial generalized linear regression model to evaluate the statistical significance of water tank density for modeling inner-urban Aedes Aegypti distribution measured by an entomological surveillance system between January 2019 and December 2021.