Remote sensing based drought monitoring in Zimbabwe

Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 649-659

  Mutowo, Godfrey ^a   Chikodzi, David ^a  

^a GREAT ZIMBABWE UNIVERSITY   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

Drought monitoring; Droughts; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index; Remote sensing; Vegetation Condition Index; Zimbabwe

Indexed keywords

EID: 84914678677     PISSN: 09653562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/DPM-10-2013-0181     Document Type: Article

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