"Since the late 1990s, remote sensing capabilities for operational drought monitoring have greatly expanded. This book presents remote sensing-based approaches that are currently used or could be used for large-area drought monitoring. The text covers applications for vegetation condition monitoring, soil moisture and ET estimation, and precipitation estimation. Each chapter includes a literature review, a technical description of the remote sensing instrument or data and the methodology used, examples and discussion of the products and information that are derived and how they can be applied to drought monitoring, and discussion of future work and considerations for using the technique"-- Read more...
Content: Drought Monitoring Michael J. Hayes, Mark D. Svoboda, Brian D. Wardlow, Martha C. Anderson, and Felix Kogan Vegetation Historical Perspectives on AVHRR NDVI and Vegetation Drought Monitoring Assaf Anyamba and Compton J. Tucker Vegetation Drought Response Index Brian D. Wardlow, Tsegaye Tadesse, Jesslyn F. Brown, Karin Callahan, Sharmistha Swain, and Eric Hunt The Vegetation Outlook (VegOut) Tsegaye Tadesse, Brian D. Wardlow, Mark D. Svoboda, and Michael J. Hayes Drought Monitoring Using Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation Estimates Derived from MERIS Simone Rossi and Stefan Niemeyer Evapotranspiration Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration for Operational Drought Monitoring Using Principles of Water and Energy Balance Gabriel B. Senay, Stefanie Bohms, and James P. Verdin A Thermal-Based Evaporative Stress Index for Monitoring Surface Moisture Depletion Martha C. Anderson, Christopher R. Hain, Brian D. Wardlow, Agustin Pimstein, John R. Mecikalski, and William P. Kustas Agricultural Drought Monitoring in Kenya Using Evapotranspiration Derived from Remote Sensing and Reanalysis Data Michael T. Marshall, Christopher Funk, and Joel Michaelsen Soil Moisture/Ground Water Microwave Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture Son V. Nghiem, Brian D. Wardlow, David Allured, Mark D. Svoboda, Doug LeComte, Matthew Rosencrans, Steven K. Chan, and Gregory Neumann North American Land Data Assimilation System Justin Sheffield, Youlong Xia, Lifeng Luo, Eric F. Wood, Michael Ek, and Kenneth E. Mitchell Satellite Gravimetry Applied to Drought Monitoring Matthew Rodell Precipitation Estimating Precipitation from WSR-88D Observations and Rain Gauge Data Gregory J. Story Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information Using Artificial Neural Networks Amir AghaKouchak, Kuolin Hsu, Soroosh Sorooshian, Bisher Imam, and Xiaogang Gao Mapping Recent Decadal Climate Variations in Precipitation and Temperature across Eastern Africa and the Sahel Christopher Funk, Joel Michaelsen, and Michael T. Marshall Snow Cover Monitoring from Remote-Sensing Satellites Cezar Kongoli, Peter Romanov, and Ralph Ferraro Summary Future Opportunities and Challenges in Remote Sensing of Drought Brian D. Wardlow, Martha C. Anderson, Justin Sheffield, Bradley D. Doorn, James P. Verdin, Xiwu Zhan, and Matthew Rodell Index
Abstract: "Since the late 1990s, remote sensing capabilities for operational drought monitoring have greatly expanded. This book presents remote sensing-based approaches that are currently used or could be used for large-area drought monitoring. The text covers applications for vegetation condition monitoring, soil moisture and ET estimation, and precipitation estimation. Each chapter includes a literature review, a technical description of the remote sensing instrument or data and the methodology used, examples and discussion of the products and information that are derived and how they can be applied to drought monitoring, and discussion of future work and considerations for using the technique"
