Seasonal comparisons of meteorological and agricultural droughtindices in Morocco using open short time-series data

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 36-48

  Ezzine, Hicham ^a   Bouziane, Ahmed ^a   Ouazar, Driss ^a  

^a MOHAMMED V UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Drought; Satellite images; SPI; Statistical analysis; SVI; SWI

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; METEOROLOGY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONALITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION COVER;

MOROCCO;

EID: 84897834655     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2013.05.005     Document Type: Article

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