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CCNY Grove School Engineers Use Remote Sensing Data To Combat Malaria Outbreaks In African Nation Of Namibia

NEW YORK, June 9, 2009 – A team of engineers with CCNY’s NOAA-CREST Center is applying remote sensing data to model outbreaks of malaria and help the southwest African nation of Namibia protect against them.  Their efforts could help one of the world’s poorest nations more effectively allocate scarce resources to combat the deadly disease and save lives.