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Table 2 Remote sensing data sourcesa

From: Geographical variations of the associations between health interventions and all-cause under-five mortality in Uganda

Source

Data type

Temporal resolution

Spatial resolution

MODIS/Terrab

LSTl

8 days

1 km

MODIS/Terrab

NDVIm

16 days

1 km

U.S. Geological Survey-Earth Resources Observation Systems (USGSS)

Rainfall

10 days

8x8km2

Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM)

Altitude

na

1 × 1 km2

MODIS,IBGD type

Land cover Water bodies

na

0.5 × 0.5km2

Global Rural and Urban Mapping project

Urban Rural extent

na

1 × 1 km2

  1. na Not applicable; Land cover groups (forest, crops, urban); aLand cover data accessed in June 2011 and other data accessed in November 2013; bModerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)/Terra, available at: http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/; lLand surface temperature (LST) day and night; mNormalized difference vegetation index