Drought risk assessment using remote sensing and GIS techniques

Arabian Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 35-53

  Belal, Abdel Aziz ^a   El Ramady, Hassan R ^b   Mohamed, Elsayed S ^a   Saleh, Ahmed M ^a  

^a NATIONAL AUTHORITY FOR REMOTE SENSING AND SPACE SCIENCES   (Egypt)

^b KAFRELSHEIKH UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Agricultural drought; Drought indices; GIS and remote sensing; Meteorological drought; MODIS; NDVI

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; GIS; NATURAL HAZARD; PARAMETERIZATION; REGIONAL PATTERN; REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 84891555926     PISSN: 18667511     EISSN: 18667538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12517-012-0707-2     Document Type: Article

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