Cost and quality of operational larviciding using drones and smartphone technology

Malaria Journal

Table 1 Comparison of Treatment Units (TUs: 10 × 10 m grid squares inundated with water) identified by the SIS and Conventional mapping approaches, compared against TUs found in the ground-truth survey

	All potential breeding sites					Anopheles positive breeding sites
Site	Ground truth TU	SIS TU	% correct	Conv TU	% correct	Ground truth TU	SIS TU	% correct	Conv TU	% correct
Site 1	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	–	0	–
Site 2	36	9	25	6	17	2	0	0	2	100
Site 3	13	8	62	0	0	1	1	100	0	0
Site 4	83	71	86	69	83	6	6	100	6	100
Site 5	11	11	100	0	0	5	5	100	0	0
Site 6	6	1	17	0	0	0	0	–	0	–
Site 7	2	2	100	0	0	2	2	100	0	0
Site 8	25	23	92	11	44	5	4	80	3	60
Mean	22.6	15.6	60	10.8	18	2.6	2.3	80	1.4	43
Total	181	125	69	86	48	21	18	86	11	52

Bold values simply refer to the mean and total values for each column, making the cells distinct from the rest of the data

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