Remote Sensing of Drought
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Remote Sensing of Drought

Innovative Monitoring Approaches

  1. 484 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Remote Sensing of Drought

Innovative Monitoring Approaches

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Remote Sensing of Drought: Innovative Monitoring Approaches presents emerging remote sensing-based tools and techniques that can be applied to operational drought monitoring and early warning around the world. The first book to focus on remote sensing and drought monitoring, it brings together a wealth of information that has been scattered through

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Yes, you can access Remote Sensing of Drought by Brian D. Wardlow,Martha C. Anderson,James P. Verdin in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Environmental Science. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Series Preface
  4. Foreword
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Editors
  8. Contributors
  9. Chapter 1: Drought Monitoring : Historical and Current Perspectives
  10. Chapter 2: Historical Perspectives on AVHRR NDVI and Vegetation Drought Monitoring
  11. Chapter 3: Vegetation Drought Response Index : An Integration of Satellite, Climate, and Biophysical Data
  12. Chapter 4: Vegetation Outlook (VegOut) : Predicting Remote Sensing–Based Seasonal Greenness
  13. Chapter 5: Drought Monitoring Using Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation Estimates Derived from MERIS
  14. Chapter 6: Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration for Operational Drought Monitoring Using Principles of Water and Energy Balance
  15. Chapter 7: Thermal-Based Evaporative Stress Index for Monitoring Surface Moisture Depletion
  16. Chapter 8: Agricultural Drought Monitoring in Kenya Using Evapotranspiration Derived from Remote Sensing and Reanalysis Data
  17. Chapter 9: Microwave Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture : Science and Applications
  18. Chapter 10: North American Land Data Assimilation System : A Framework for Merging Model and Satellite Data for Improved Drought Monitoring
  19. Chapter 11: Satellite Gravimetry Applied to Drought Monitoring
  20. Chapter 12: Estimating Precipitation from WSR-88D Observations and Rain Gauge Data : Potential for Drought Monitoring
  21. Chapter 13: Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information Using Artificial Neural Networks : Application to Drought Monitoring and Analysis
  22. Chapter 14: Mapping Recent Decadal Climate Variations in Precipitation and Temperature across Eastern Africa and the Sahel
  23. Chapter 15: Snow Cover Monitoring from Remote-Sensing Satellites : Possibilities for Drought Assessment
  24. Chapter 16: Future Opportunities and Challenges in Remote Sensing of Drought
  25. Back Cover