Remote Sensing of Drought: Innovative Monitoring Approaches (Drought and Water Crises)

Remote Sensing of Drought: Innovative Monitoring Approaches (Drought and Water Crises) by Brian D. Wardlow (Editor), Martha C. Anderson (Editor), James P. Verdin (Editor). Distant Sensing of Drought: Innovative Monitoring Approaches presents rising remote sensing-based mostly tools and methods that can be utilized to operational drought monitoring and early warning across the world. The primary e book to focus on remote sensing and drought monitoring, it brings collectively a wealth of knowledge that has been scattered throughout the literature and throughout many disciplines. Featuring contributions by main scientists, it assembles a cross-section of globally relevant techniques that are currently operational or have potential to be operational within the near future.

The ebook explores a variety of applications for monitoring four important parts of the hydrological cycle related to drought: vegetation health, evapotranspiration, soil moisture and groundwater, and precipitation. These functions use remotely sensed optical, thermal, microwave, radar, and gravity knowledge from instruments reminiscent of AMSR-E, GOES, GRACE, MERIS, MODIS, and Landsat and implement a number of superior modeling and data assimilation techniques. Examples show how you can combine this info into routine drought products. The e-book also examines the role of satellite remote sensing inside conventional drought monitoring, in addition to current challenges and future prospects.

Enhancing drought monitoring is turning into increasingly necessary in addressing a wide range of societal issues, from meals security and water shortage to human well being, ecosystem providers, and energy production. This unique guide surveys modern distant sensing approaches to give you new perspectives on large-space drought monitoring and early warning.

The book could be very detailed and thorough. Our company needed to realize an summary of available remote sensing methods for drought and this e-book supplies aplenty. Chapter 7 and the conclusion are particularly strong.

Remote Sensing of Drought: Innovative Monitoring Approaches (Drought and Water Crises)

Brian D. Wardlow (Editor), Martha C. Anderson (Editor), James P. Verdin (Editor)

484 pages

CRC Press; 1 edition (April 24, 2012)

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