Africa’s progress toward malaria elimination is being threatened by the recent invasion of Anopheles stephensi, an urban-adapted Asian malaria vector now spreading across multiple countries, including Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Nigeria, and Ghana. This species thrives in man-made urban water containers, especially construction pits, shows high resistance to adulticide insecticides, and exhibits biting behaviors that reduce the effectiveness of traditional malaria interventions. My work is to predict An. Stephensi habatit and productivity to support efficient on-site treatment, as well as the comprehensive geospatial support for site larval survey, from satellite image processing to navigation app. This is an ongoing project, funded by the Gates Foundation.
Detected construction pits, a major type of mosquito An. Stephensi breeding sites.
Online map for on-site larval survey visualization.
LLM-Find is an autonomous agent for geo-spatial data retrieval and downloading. It can help to obtain data from your favorite data sources, such as OpenStreetMap. It is very convenient for data scientists who need to collect various data for analyzing tasks. I like this agent very much and will use it for future research on autonomous modeling.
What the user need to is to type in the request in natural language, the agent will return the data for you in minutes. For example, if you want to download all coffee shop locations from OpenStreetMap in New York City, all you need to do is input "download all coffee shop locations in New York City", and the agent will download the location points for you. More details can be found here.
Below is an example of download boundary and image for Tempe, Arizona, US.