Early assessment of seasonal forage availability for mitigating the impact of drought on East African pastoralists

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 174, Issue , 2016, Pages 44-55

  Vrieling, Anton ^a   Meroni, Michele ^b   Mude, Andrew G ^c   Chantarat, Sommarat ^d   Ummenhofer, Caroline C ^e   de Bie, Kees C A J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b EUROPEAN COMMISSION   (Belgium)

^c INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Drought; Index insurance; Livestock mortality; MODIS; NDVI time series; Phenology

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; DROUGHT; FORESTRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PLANTS (BOTANY); PURCHASING; RADIOMETERS; RAIN; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIME SERIES; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LIVESTOCK MORTALITY; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS; NDVI TIME SERIES; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX TIME SERIES; PHENOLOGY; TEMPORAL INTEGRATION;

INSURANCE;

DROUGHT; FORAGE; INSURANCE SYSTEM; LIVESTOCK; MODIS; MORTALITY; NDVI; PASTORALISM; PHENOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES;

ETHIOPIA; KENYA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84949658386     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.12.003     Document Type: Article

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