Modified perpendicular drought index (MPDI): a real-time drought monitoring method

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 150-164

  Ghulam, Abduwasit ^a,b,d   Qin, Qiming ^a   Teyip, Tashpolat ^c   Li, Zhao Liang ^d,e  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Saint Louis University   (United States)

^c XINJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Faculté de Médecine   (France)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Drought monitoring; Modified Perpendicular Drought Index (MPDI); NIR Red spectral space

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROUGHT; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SOIL MOISTURE;

ENHANCED THEMATIC MAPPER PLUS (ETM+); MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETER (MODIS); NIR-RED SPECTRAL SPACE; PERPENDICULAR DROUGHT INDEX (PDI);

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

CROP PRODUCTION; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTIMATION METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INDEX METHOD; MODIS; REAL TIME; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; SPECTROMETRY; THEMATIC MAPPING; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; VEGETATIVE REPRODUCTION; WILTING;

EID: 34249815205     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2007.03.002     Document Type: Article

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