Strengths and weaknesses of Global Positioning System (GPS) data-loggers and semi-structured interviews for capturing fine-scale human mobility: findings from Iquitos, Peru.

• Main Authors: Valerie A Paz-Soldan (Author), Robert C Reiner (Author), Amy C Morrison (Author), Steven T Stoddard (Author), Uriel Kitron (Author), Thomas W Scott (Author), John P Elder (Author), Eric S Halsey (Author), Tadeusz J Kochel (Author), Helvio Astete (Author), Gonzalo M Vazquez-Prokopec (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Quantifying human mobility has significant consequences for studying physical activity, exposure to pathogens, and generating more realistic infectious disease models. Location-aware technologies such as Global Positioning System (GPS)-enabled devices are used increasingly as a gold standard for mob...