Web-service-based monitoring and analysis of global agricultural drought

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 79, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 929-943

  Deng, Meixia ^a   Di, Liping ^a   Han, Weiguo ^a   Yagci, Ali L ^a   Peng, Chunming ^a   Heo, Gil ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DROUGHT; FORECASTING SYSTEM; GEOSPATIAL WEB SERVICES; MONITORING AND ANALYSIS; REAL TIME MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS; TRADITIONAL APPROACHES;

AGRICULTURE; DROUGHT; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; WEB SERVICES; WEBSITES;

INTEROPERABILITY;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; DATA SET; DECISION MAKING; DROUGHT STRESS; FORECASTING METHOD; MONITORING; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; RESOLUTION; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84884928113     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.79.10.929     Document Type: Article

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