Images of Ticks Submitted to the Swedish Veterinary Agency During 2024
This dataset contains all verified reports of tick sightings with corresponding images reported by the public to the "Rapportera Fästing" platform (https://rapporterafasting.sva.se/) during 2024. The platform is developed and maintained by the Swedish Veterinary Agency (SVA) within the scope of the European project IDAlert (https://idalertproject.eu/). The dataset is provided by SVA and is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The dataset includes two files: ticks_2024.zip, which contains the tick image files, and ticks_2024.csv, which contains metadata about each report. The dataset contains 3337 reports with corresponding images.
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Department of Chemistry, Environment and Feed Hygiene
Infectious Disease decision-support tools and Alert systems to build climate Resilience to emerging health Threats
There’s a real risk of climate-induced disease. Climate change is a driver (one of many) of recurrent outbreaks. Policymakers and decision-makers need tailored information and early warning and impact assessment. In this context, the EU-funded IDAlert project will explore the emergence and transmission of zoonotic pathogens by developing novel indicators, innovative early warning systems and tools for decision-makers. The project will co-create novel policy-relevant Europe-wide indicators that track past, present, and future climate-induced disease risk across hazard, exposure, and vulnerability domains at the animal, human and environment interface. The findings will pave the way for long-lasting impacts on EU climate policy and provide new tools for the European Green Deal.
Blood-sucking acarid parasites of the order Ixodida comprising two families: the softbacked ticks (ARGASIDAE) and hardbacked ticks (IXODIDAE). Ticks are larger than their relatives, the MITES. They penetrate the skin of their host by means of highly specialized, hooked mouth parts and feed on its blood. Ticks attack all groups of terrestrial vertebrates. In humans they are responsible for many TICK-BORNE DISEASES, including the transmission of ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPOTTED FEVER; TULAREMIA; BABESIOSIS; AFRICAN SWINE FEVER; and RELAPSING FEVER. (From Barnes, Invertebrate Zoology, 5th ed, pp543-44)
Theory and development of COMPUTER SYSTEMS which perform tasks that normally require human intelligence. Such tasks may include speech recognition, LEARNING; VISUAL PERCEPTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; reasoning, PROBLEM SOLVING, DECISION-MAKING, and translation of language.
Processing techniques which apply quantitative methods to the values in a digital yield or remotely sensed scene to group pixels with similar digital number values into feature classes or categories.
[EDAM]* The analysis of a image (typically a digital image) of some type in order to extract information from it.
scientific work undertaken by members of the general public, often\nin collaboration with or under the direction of professional scientists and scientific\ninstitutions