Studying drought phenomena in the Continental United States in 2011 and 2012 using various drought indices

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 190, Issue , 2017, Pages 96-106

  Zhang, Lifu ^a   Jiao, Wenzhe ^a,b   Zhang, Hongming ^a   Huang, Changping ^a   Tong, Qingxi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Climate divisions; Comparison; Condition index; Drought; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADIOMETERS; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER-EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM (AMSR-E); CLIMATE DIVISIONS; COMPARISON; CONDITION INDEX; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER DATUM; PERPENDICULAR DROUGHT INDICES (PDI); TEMPERATURE-VEGETATION DRYNESS INDICES; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

DROUGHT;

AMSR-E; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DROUGHT; MODIS; NDVI; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRMM;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 85006827271     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.12.010     Document Type: Article

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