Remote Sensing of Drought (eBook, ePUB)

Innovative Monitoring Approaches
Redaktion: Wardlow, Brian D.; Verdin, James P.; Anderson, Martha C.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents globally applicable remote sensing approaches that are currently used or could be used for large-area drought monitoring. The text covers applications for monitoring and estimating vegetation health, soil moisture, evapotranspiration, and precipitation. Each chapter includes a literature review and a technical description of the remote sensing instrument or data and the methodology used. The chapters also include examples and discussion of the products and information derived and how they can be applied to drought monitoring, as well as discussion of future work and considerations for using the technique.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040197653
• Artikelnr.: 72584093

Autorenporträt

Brian D. Wardlow is an assistant professor and GIScience program area leader for the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. For more information, visit the National Drought Mitigation Center web site at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Martha C. Anderson is a physical scientist in the Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, Maryland. For more information, visit Dr. Anderson's web page at USDA ARS. James P. Verdin is a physical scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Early Warning and Environmental Monitoring (EWEM) Program. For more information, visit the EWEM web site.

Inhaltsangabe

Drought Monitoring. Vegetation: Historical Perspectives on AVHRR NDVI and
Vegetation Drought Monitoring. Vegetation Drought Response Index. The
Vegetation Outlook (VegOut). Drought Monitoring Using Fraction of Absorbed
Photosynthetically Active Radiation Estimates Derived from MERIS.
Evapotranspiration: Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration for Operational
Drought Monitoring Using Principles of Water and Energy Balance. A
Thermal-Based Evaporative Stress Index for Monitoring Surface Moisture
Depletion. Agricultural Drought Monitoring in Kenya Using
Evapotranspiration Derived from Remote Sensing and Reanalysis Data. Soil
Moisture/Ground Water: Microwave Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture. North
American Land Data Assimilation System. Satellite Gravimetry Applied to
Drought Monitoring. Precipitation: Estimating Precipitation from WSR-88D
Observations and Rain Gauge Data. Precipitation Estimation from Remotely
Sensed Information Using Artificial Neural Networks. Mapping Recent Decadal
Climate Variations in Precipitation and Temperature across Eastern Africa
and the Sahel. Snow Cover Monitoring from Remote-Sensing Satellites.
Summary: Future Opportunities and Challenges in Remote Sensing of Drought.
Index.