The use of NDVI and its Derivatives for Monitoring Lake Victoria's Water Level and Drought Conditions

Water Resources Management

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1591-1613

  Omute, Paul ^a   Corner, Rob ^b   Awange, Joseph Langat ^b,c  

^a KYAMBOGO UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Catchment basin; Drought; Lake variability; Lake Victoria; NDVI; Water levels

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS TOOLS; ANNUAL MEAN; CATCHMENT BASINS; DATA SETS; DROUGHT CONDITIONS; EARLY WARNING; GLOBAL INVENTORIES; ITERATIVE APPROACH; LAKE VICTORIA; LAKE WATER LEVEL; MAPPING STUDIES; MEAN WATER LEVELS; NATURAL VARIABILITY; NDVI; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; VEGETATION CONDITION INDICES; VEGETATION INDEX; WEATHER PATTERNS;

CATCHMENTS; DATA STRUCTURES; DROUGHT; LAKES; RUNOFF; VEGETATION;

WATER LEVELS;

AVHRR; CATCHMENT; DATA SET; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GIS; LAKE WATER; NDVI; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER LEVEL;

EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE VICTORIA;

EID: 84859106893     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-011-9974-z     Document Type: Review

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