Frank C. Tanser
Geographical information 
systems (GIS) scientist

                   

PO Box 198
Mtubatuba
3935, South Africa

Phone: +27-35-5500158
Fax: +27-35-5501674
Email Address: tanserf@mrc.ac.za
Website: http://www.angelfire.com/sc2/frankt

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Research Interests

My research focuses on the application of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technology and remote sensing to a wide range of environmental and health problems. My environmental research has centered on satellite-derived indices of landscape pattern to quantify degradation and map vegetation type. My health-related research has focused predominantly on the spatial patterns of various infectious diseases e.g. HIV, malaria and TB and GIS models to describe and predict these distributions.

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Publications

2000

 

Tanser F.C. et al. 2000. Health service utilisation patterns in rural Kwa-Zulu Natal: implications for the optimal siting of health facilities in rural areas. In Preparation

 

Tanser, F.C. and Palmer A.R. 2000. The relationship between remotely-sensed vegetation indices and biomass/degradation in semi-arid, heterogeneous environments: the Great Fish River Valley Experience. In preparation

 

Tanser, F.C. et al. 2000. Geographic patterns of Tuberculosis distribution in the Hlabisa district, 1991-1998. In Preparation

 

Tanser, F.C. 2000. Geographic accessibility and the prediction and equitable distribution of fieldworker workload in a large, rural South African health Survey. Submitted to Social Science & Medicine   

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Tanser F.C. et al. 2000. Malaria seasonality and climate change: implications For Africa’s disease burden. Submitted to Emerging Infectious Diseases

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Tanser, F.C. and Palmer A.R. (in Press) 2000. Remotely-sensed vegetation mapping of the Great Fish River basin, South Africa, using the moving standard deviation index (MSDI) as a classification enhancement tool. Submitted to Journal Of Vegetation Science 

 

Tanser F.C. et al. 2000. HIV heterogeneity and proximity of homesteads to roads in rural South Africa: An exploration using a GIS. Tropical Medicine and International Health. 
5 (1): 40 - 46.

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1999

 


Tanser, F.C. and Palmer A.R. 1999. The application of a remotely-sensed diversity index to monitor degradation patterns in a semi-arid, heterogeneous, South African landscape. Journal of Arid Environments. 43(4): 477-484.

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Tanser, F.C. and Wilkinson, D. 1999. The Spatial Implications of the DOTS Strategy: A novel application of GIS and GPS technologies. Tropical Medicine and International Health. 4(10):634-638.
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Wilkinson, D. and Tanser, F.C. 1999. GIS/GPS Technology to document improved access to tuberculosis treatment in Africa. The Lancet. 354(9176):394-5.
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1998

 


Snow, RW; Gouws, E; Omumbo ,JA; Rapuoda, B; Craig, MH; Tanser, F; Le Sueur, D and Ouma, J 1998. Models to Predict the Intensity of Plasmodium falciparum Transmission: Applications to the burden of Disease in Kenya. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 92(6):601-6.

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Last updated 05/29/2000