Determining the spatial distribution of environmental and socio-economic suitability for human leptospirosis in the face of limited epidemiological data

Table 1 Data format, source and the interpolation method used for databases

Database	Data description	Source	Spatial interpolation
Demographic data¹	Vector data. Census tracts represented by polygons	“Population” platform⁴	Area-weighting approach [114]
Socio-economic data²	Vector data. Census tracts represented by polygons	“Populations” platform⁴	Area-weighting approach [114]
Open channels	Vector data. Open channels represented by lines	Infrastructure of Spatial Data of the Province of Santa Fe website⁵	Euclidean distance
Elevation	Raster data. Digital Elevation Model (DEM) with 5 m resolution	National Geographic Institute website⁶	Minimum value of cells aggregated
Vegetation coverage	Raster data. Mean Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) for the year 2018 with 5 m resolution	Sentinel 2 images	Bilinear method
Land cover types³	Raster data. Land cover raster for the year 2018 with 10 m resolution	Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 images

References: (1) Demographic data: Number of inhabitants by census tract for the year 2010, (2) Socioeconomic data: Proportion of housings at the level of census tract: (a) without latrine, (b) without piped water supply, (c) without solid roof and/or with bare floor, (d) with the head of household with a high school diploma or above (tertiary and university degree) for the year 2010, (3) Land cover types: low vegetation, high vegetation, permanent and non-permanent water bodies and impervious surfaces, (4) https://poblaciones.org/, (5) https://www.santafe.gob.ar/idesf/portal, and (6) https://www.ign.gob.ar/

ISSN: 2049-9957