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Table 1 Description of ancillary data sets and the sources of these covariates

From: Spatial-temporal patterns of malaria incidence in Uganda using HMIS data from 2015 to 2019

Data set

Data type

Data source

Single time point data sets

 National geo-located health facilities

Vector

https://figshare.com/articles/Public_health_facilities_in_sub_Saharan_Africa/7725374 Accessed September-2019.

 Digital elevation model

Raster

https://www.rcmrd.org/ Accessed October-2019.

 Land use and land cover

Raster

http://geoportal.rcmrd.org/layers/servir%3Auganda_sentinel2_lulc2016 Accessed October-2019.

 National wetlands

Vector

http://maps.nema.go.ug/layers/geonode%3Augandawetlands2008 Accessed September-2019.

 Lakes and rivers

Vector

https://geodata.lib.berkeley.edu/catalog/stanford-fh022bz4757 Accessed September-2019.

 Road network

Vector

http://cod.humanitarianresponse.info/sites/default/files/uganda_roads_feb2009.zip Accessed September-2019 and from KEMRI.

Multi-time point data sets

 Land surface temperature

Raster

https://earlywarning.usgs.gov/fews/ewx/index.html?region=af Accessed October-2019.

 Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI)

Raster

 Rainfall

Raster

https://www.tamsat.org.uk/data/archive Accessed September-2019.

 Night-light emissivity

Raster

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/NightLights Accessed November-2019.

 Mean years of education for women of childbearing age over 2000–2015

Raster

http://ghdx.healthdata.org/record/africa-educational-attainment-geospatial-estimates-2000-2015 Accessed November-2019.