Establishing and assessing the Integrated Surface Drought Index (ISDI) for agricultural drought monitoring in mid-eastern China

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 397-410

  Wu, Jianjun ^a   Zhou, Lei ^b   Liu, Ming ^a   Zhang, Jie ^c   Leng, Song ^a   Diao, Chunyuan ^d  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING CENTER   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Data mining; Drought; Drought indices; ISDI

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA MINING; DROUGHT; ERROR ANALYSIS; MONITORING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION INDEX;

CHINA;

EID: 84880279171     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2012.11.003     Document Type: Article

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