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How to Use the Climatological Suitability for Malaria Transmission (CSMT) Interface

Viewing climatological suitability for each month at a specific location
Visual Features of the map

Viewing climatological suitability for each month at a specific location
Users may view monthly climatological suitability for malaria transmission at any location on the map by simply clicking on it.

Visual features of the map
The map first displays the number of months during the year in which climatological conditions are suitable for malaria transmission. Users may also use the map viewer to:

Overlay adminstrative boundaries and epidemiological mask
Any combination of the available overlay maps may be displayed.
  1. Using the "Optional Overlay Maps" table located to the far left of the map, select the maps that you would like to display.
  2. Click the "Redraw" button (top blue button to left of map).

Zoom map in/out
There are two ways to zoom the map to different regions; the click-and-drag option and the latitude/longitude text boxes. Note that the map can not display areas outside of the region first shown on the interface (i.e., 40S-40N, 20W-55E).

  • Click-and-drag

    1. Click the left mouse button at the upper-left corner of the region to which you would like to zoom.
    2. While holding down the button, drag the mouse to the lower-right corner of the region to which you would like to zoom.
    3. Release the left mouse button. The map will redraw automatically.

  • Specific lat/lon selection
    There are four lat/lon text boxes underneath and to the left of the map.
    1. Change the values in the lat/lon text boxes to the limits of the region you would like to display using the text format already shown.
    2. Click the "Redraw" button.

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