TEMPO : Remote sensing and Spatial modelling of animal mobility - Application to the study of wildlife/livestock contacts and risk of pathogen transmission

The main objective of TEMPO project is to model from Earth observation data the use of the landscape by wild and domestic animal populations, as well as the displacements of the individuals constituting these populations, in order to better characterize contacts and their determinants in wild / domestic interface areas and to estimate the risk of pathogen transmission.

Project start date:

15/05/2018

Project end date:

31/12/2021

Objectives

  • Use remote sensing to characterize and monitor the environmental determinants of space occupation, movements of and contacts between wildlife and domestic animals;
  • Model the dynamics of land use taking into account these environmental determinants;
  • Model the transmission of pathogens between wild and domestic animal populations.

Location

Zimbabwe, Mozambique

Description

We propose to take as a model the contacts between domestic and wild herbivores on the periphery of protected areas in southern Africa, a region of the world with many national parks and where animal movements between natural and anthropic habitats are frequently observed in both directions. Two diseases will be studied: foot-and-mouth disease and Rift Valley fever.

The TEMPO project will be based on telemetry data, surveys and epidemiology data already available, and will focus on the development of innovative spatial modeling methods for the simulation of animal mobility. The main methodological challenges that will be addressed are the assimilation of Earth Observation multi-sensor data in the models, and the modeling of mobility at different spatial scales.

This project is carried out within the framework of the Research Platform "Production and Conservation in Partnership" ​​(RP-PCP).

Partners

  • CIRAD, UMR TETIS
  • IRD, UMR MIVEGEC
  • University of Zimbabwe, Faculty of Veterinary Science
  • Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Faculdade de veterinaria
  • Research Platform "Production and Conservation in Partnership" ​​(RP-PCP)
  • CNRS

Fundings

The TEMPO project was selected for the call for projects "Support for Research MUSE 2017" and thus benefits from state aid generated by the National Research Agency under the programme "Investments for the future" bearing the reference ANR-16-IDEX-0006 and coordinated by the University of Montpellier (143 k€).