Monitoring agricultural drought for arid and humid regions using multi-sensor remote sensing data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2875-2887

  Rhee, Jinyoung ^a   Im, Jungho ^b   Carbone, Gregory J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b 402 Baker Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural drought; Arid regions; Data fusion; Humid regions; MODIS; TRMM

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DROUGHT; ARIZONA; DROUGHT CONDITIONS; DROUGHT INDICES; HUMID REGIONS; IN-SITU; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER SENSORS; MODIS; MULTI SENSOR; MULTI-SENSOR DATA; NEW MEXICO; NORMAL CONDITION; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX DATUM; NORTH CAROLINA; PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDICES; PRECIPITATION DATA; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SOUTH CAROLINA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX; TRMM; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION SATELLITES; VEGETATION HEALTH INDICES;

ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; DATA FUSION; INFORMATION FUSION; MONITORING; RADIOMETERS; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION;

DROUGHT;

ARID REGION; DROUGHT; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; MODIS; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA;

ARIZONA; NEW MEXICO; NORTH CAROLINA; SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956873550     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.07.005     Document Type: Article

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