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## Background The continuing spread of the Asian tiger mosquito __Aedes albopictus__ in Europe is of increasing public health concern due to the potential risk of new outbreaks of exotic vector-borne diseases that this species can transmit as competent vector. We predicted the most favorable areas for a short term invasion of __Ae. albopictus__ in north-eastern Italy using reconstructed daily satellite data time series (MODIS Land Surface Temperature maps, LST). We reconstructed more than 11,000 daily MODIS LST maps for the period 2001-09 (i.e. performed spatial and temporal gap-filling) in an Open Source GIS framework. We aggregated these LST maps over time and identified the potential distribution areas of __Ae. albopictus__ by adapting published temperature threshold values using three variables as predictors (0°C for mean January temperatures, 11°C for annual mean temperatures and 1350 growing degree days filtered for areas with autumnal mean temperatures > 11°C). The resulting maps were integrated into the final potential distribution map and this was compared with the known current distribution of __Ae. albopictus__ in north-eastern Italy. ## Results LST maps show the microcl
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- Author
- Markus Neteler; David Roiz; Duccio Rocchini; Cristina Castellani; Annapaola Rizzoli
- Publisher
- BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); [London]: BioMed Central, c2002-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 1476-072X)
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)