Remote sensing of drought: Emergence of a satellite-based monitoring toolkit for the United States

Remote Sensing of Water Resources, Disasters, and Urban Studies

Volumn 3, Issue , 2015, Pages 367-399

  Wardlow, Brian ^a   Anderson, Martha ^b   Tadesse, Tsegaye ^a   Hain, Chris ^c   Crow, Wade T ^b   Rodell, Matt ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

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EARTH SCIENCES;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84971642755     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/b19321     Document Type: Chapter

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