The Evaporative Stress Index as an indicator of agricultural drought in Brazil: An assessment based on crop yield impacts

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 174, Issue , 2016, Pages 82-99

  Anderson, Martha C ^a   Zolin, Cornelio A ^b   Sentelhas, Paulo C ^c   Hain, Christopher R ^d   Semmens, Kathryn ^e   Tugrul Yilmaz, M ^f   Gao, Feng ^a   Otkin, Jason A ^g   Tetrault, Robert ^h  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e Nature Nurture Center   (United States)

^f MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^h Washington DC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MOISTURE; RADIOMETERS; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WATER SUPPLY;

AGRICULTURAL DROUGHT; BIOMASS ACCUMULATION; CORRELATION PATTERNS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; PHYSICALLY BASED MODELING; SPATIOTEMPORAL INFORMATION;

CROPS;

CROP YIELD; DROUGHT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LAND SURFACE; LEAF AREA INDEX; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

BAHIA; BRAZIL;

GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84954194330     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.11.034     Document Type: Article

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