Analysis of agricultural drought using vegetation temperature condition index (VTCI) from Terra/MODIS satellite data

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 184, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 7153-7163

  Patel, N R ^a   Parida, B R ^b   Venus, V ^c   Saha, S K ^a   Dadhwal, V K ^d  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING   (India)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d National Remote Sensing Centre (ISRO)   (India)

Author keywords

Crop yields; Drought; Remote sensing .MODIS; Ts NDVI space; VTCI

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; AGRICULTURAL DROUGHT; CROP PERFORMANCE; CROP YIELD; DROUGHT MONITORING; DROUGHT PERIODS; DROUGHT STRESS; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MOISTURE CONDITIONS; MOISTURE DEPLETION; MOISTURE INDEX; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PATTERN CHANGE; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; REGIONAL SCALE; SATELLITE DATA; SPACE AND TIME; SPATIAL EXTENT; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TERRA/MODIS; TS-NDVI SPACE; VEGETATION RESPONSE; VEGETATION TEMPERATURE CONDITION INDEX; VTCI; WATER STATUS; WEATHER MONITORING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CROPS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FORESTRY; RADIOMETERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SPACE OPTICS; VEGETATION; WATER SUPPLY;

DROUGHT;

CORRELATION; CROP YIELD; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MODIS; MONITORING SYSTEM; NDVI; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TERRA (SATELLITE); VEGETATION;

AGRICULTURAL PARAMETERS; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CROP MOISTURE INDEX; DROUGHT; DROUGHT STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GRAIN; HARVEST; INDIA; PEANUT; SEMIARID CLIMATE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION TEMPERATURE CONDITION INDEX;

AGRICULTURE; DROUGHTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SPACECRAFT; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84871711985     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-2487-7     Document Type: Article

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