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. 2021 Jul 11;25(5):2191–2239. doi: 10.1111/tgis.12792

TABLE 3.

Remote sensing and unmanned aerial vehicles

Earth spheres Study Region or country of study Variables used Specific topics and analysis
Demographic and socioeconomic Contamination Weather Mobility Health services COVID‐19 data Remote sensing source Spatiotemporal analysis Correlations Risk maps Urban context Political measures in research Geographic specifications
Atmosphere Wu et al. (2020) China × × × Confirmed cases Gesopatial Data Cloud × ×
Das et al. (2021) India × × Confirmed cases Landsat−8 OLI/TIRS Kolkata ×
Yao, Pan, et al. (2020) China × × × Confirmed cases China Meteorological Data Sharing Service System × × ×
Prunet et al. (2020) France, Italy, Spain, Greece × S5P TROPOMI Lockdown Paris, Milan, Madrid, Athens ×
Yao, Zuo, et al. (2020) China × × Confirmed cases Resource and Environmental Science Data Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences × × Land use, environmental repercussions
Aman et al. (2020) India × Landsat‐8 OLI/TIRS Lockdown Ahmedabad
Pei et al. (2020) China × S5P TROPOMI Lockdown Beijing, Wuhan, Guangzhou ×
Ghahremanloo et al. (2020) East Asia × S5P TROPOMI × × Environmental repercussions
Wyche et al. (2020) UK × S5P TROPOMI × × Environmental repercussions
Rahman, Azad, et al. (2020) Bangladesh × S5P TROPOMI Lockdown x Dhaka ×
El‐Magd and Zanaty (2020) Egypt × MODIS Lockdown ×
Stieb, Evans, To, Brook, and Burnett (2020) Canada × × Confirmed cases MODIS, MISR, GEOS‐Chem × × × NDVI
Filonchyk et al. (2020) China × × MODIS, AIRS, AURA OMI Lockdown ×
Stratoulias and Nuthammachot (2020) Thailand × S5P TROPOMI Lockdown
Ghosh, Das, et al. (2020) India × × Landsat‐8 OLI/TIRS Lockdown Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai NDVI
Roman‐Gonzalez, Navarro‐Raymundo, and Vargas‐Cuentas (2020) Peru × S5P TROPOMI × × Environmental repercussions
Metya, Dagupta, Halder, Chakraborty, and Tiwari (2020) South‐East Asia × AIRS, AURA OMI Lockdown
Ogen (2020) Europe × S5P TROPOMI × Environmental repercussions
Vîrghileanu, Săvulescu, Mihai, Nistor, and Dobre (2020) Europe × × Confirmed cases S5P TROPOMI × × Regional geography
Naeger and Murphy (2020) USA × × S5P TROPOMI × × Regional geography, environmental repercussions
Tan, Li, Gao, and Jiang (2020) China × S5P TROPOMI Lockdown × Regional geography, environmental repercussions
Roman‐González and Vargas‐Cuentas (2020) Peru × S5P TROPOMI × Environmental repercussions
Sandifer et al. (2020) USA × × Polls NOAA, IOOS × Territorial planning
Lyalko, Yelistratove, Apstolov, and Romanciuc (2020) Ukraine × Envisat, NOAA Lockdown Environmental repercussions
Evangeliou et al. (2020) Europe × × Global Atmosphere Watch × Environmental repercussions
Oxoli et al. (2020) Italy × S5P TROPOMI Lockdown Regional geography, environmental repercussions
Pathakoti et al. (2020) India × × AURA OMI, S5P TROPOMI, MODIS Lockdown ×
Ash’aari et al. (2020) Malaysia × × MODIS Lockdown Environmental repercussions
Venter, Aunan, Chowdhury, and Lelieveld (2020) World × × × S5P TROPOMI Lockdown Environmental repercussions
Karaer, Balafkan, Gazea, Arghandeh, and Ozguven (2020) USA × × S5P TROPOMI × ×
Lithosphere Das et al. (2021) India × × Confirmed cases Landsat 8 OLI/TIRS Kolkata ×
Prunet et al. (2020) France, Italy, Spain, Greece × S5P TROPOMI Lockdown Paris, Milan, Madrid, Athens ×
Yao, Zuo, et al. (2020) China × × Confirmed cases Resource and Environmental Science Data Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences × × Land use, environmental repercussions
Wang, Peng, et al. (2020) China × Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences × Land use, environmental repercussions
Renigier‐Biłozor et al. (2020) World × × Land use, economic repercussions
Elvidge et al. (2020) China × × VIIRS, DNB, NOAA × × Land use, economic and environmental repercussions
Minetto et al. (2020) World × × WorldView‐2 satellite × Munich, Phoenix, Moscow, Wuhan, North Korea × Land use, economic repercussions
Okyere et al. (2020) Ghana × × Unmanned aerial vehicle × Aquatic geoenvironments, urban planning, economic repercussions
Mobaied (2020) Syria × × × Land use
Ghosh, Elvidge, et al. (2020) India × VIIRS DNB NOAA × Land use, economic and environmental repercussions
Taoyang et al. (2020) China × Gaofen‐2, Jilin‐1, Pléiades × Wuhan Urban planning
Saxena, Rabha, Tahlani, and Ray (2020) India × National Remote Sensing Center ISRO × Land use, NDVI, economic and environmental repercussions
Gupta, Bhatt, Roy, and Chauhan (2020) India × MODIS Lockdown Environmental repercussions, NDVI
Kanga et al. (2020) India × × WorldView‐1 × Jaipur Urban planning
Hydrosphere Aman et al. (2020) India × Landsat‐8 OLI/TIRS Lockdown Ahmedabad
Okyere et al. (2020) Ghana × × UAV × Aquatic geoenvironments, urban planning, economic repercussions
Garg et al. (2020) India × Sentinel‐2A and Sentinel‐2B Lockdown × Aquatic geoenvironments
Yunus et al. (2020) India × S5P TROPOMI, AURA OMI Lockdown × Aquatic geoenvironments
Rodríguez‐Benito et al. (2020) Chile × Sentinel‐2 and Sentinel‐3 Lockdown × Aquatic geoenvironments
Avtar et al. (2020) China and India × × Landsat 8 OLI, Sentinel‐2 Lockdown Wuhan Aquatic geoenvironments, environmental repercussions