Study on inter-seasonal and intra-seasonal relationships of meteorological and agricultural drought indices in the Rajasthan State of India

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 97, Issue , 2013, Pages 108-119

  Dhakar, Rajkumar ^a   Sehgal, Vinay Kumar ^a   Pradhan, Sanatan ^a  

^a INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Crops; Irrigation; Phenology; Rainfall; Remote sensing; SPI; VCI

Indexed keywords

AGROMETEOROLOGY; DROUGHT; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; NDVI; PHENOLOGY; PIXEL; RAINFALL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION;

INDIA; RAJASTHAN;

EID: 84879734384     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: 1095922X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2013.06.001     Document Type: Article

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