Analysis of drought events for the semi-arid central plains of Iran with satellite and meteorological based indicators

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 9559-9569

  Shamsipour, Ali Akbar ^a   Zawar Reza, Peyman ^a,b   Panah, Seyed Kazem Alavi ^a   Azizi, Ghassem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; VEGETATION;

LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL PATTERNS; STANDARDIZED PRECIPITATION INDEX; VEGETATION CONDITION INDICES; VEGETATION HEALTH INDICES;

DROUGHT;

AVHRR; DROUGHT; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; NDVI; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RAINFALL; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SEMIARID REGION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION COVER;

IRAN;

EID: 82155179318     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2011.566587     Document Type: Article

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