Wardlow / Anderson / Verdin Remote Sensing of Drought

Innovative Monitoring Approaches
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4398-3560-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 484 Seiten

Reihe: Drought and Water Crises

Remote Sensing of Drought: Innovative Monitoring Approaches presents emerging remote sensing-based tools and techniques that can be applied to operational drought monitoring and early warning around the world. The first book to focus on remote sensing and drought monitoring, it brings together a wealth of information that has been scattered throughout the literature and across many disciplines. Featuring contributions by leading scientists, it assembles a cross-section of globally applicable techniques that are currently operational or have potential to be operational in the near future.

The book explores a range of applications for monitoring four critical components of the hydrological cycle related to drought: vegetation health, evapotranspiration, soil moisture and groundwater, and precipitation. These applications use remotely sensed optical, thermal, microwave, radar, and gravity data from instruments such as AMSR-E, GOES, GRACE, MERIS, MODIS, and Landsat and implement several advanced modeling and data assimilation techniques. Examples show how to integrate this information into routine drought products. The book also examines the role of satellite remote sensing within traditional drought monitoring, as well as current challenges and future prospects.

Improving drought monitoring is becoming increasingly important in addressing a wide range of societal issues, from food security and water scarcity to human health, ecosystem services, and energy production. This unique book surveys innovative remote sensing approaches to provide you with new perspectives on large-area drought monitoring and early warning.

Zielgruppe

Upper-level undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in remote sensing, climatology, environmental modeling, GIS science, geography, environmental studies, natural hazards, water resource management, natural resources management, and sustainability; academic researchers, remote sensing scientists, and other professionals in the geospatial technologies field; policy makers and resource managers from a variety of sectors (soil, agriculture, climate, and water); and government agencies and international organizations with an interest in drought monitoring information.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wardlow, Brian D.

Anderson, Martha C.

Verdin, James P.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geodäsie, Kartographie, Fernerkundung
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geodäsie, Kartographie, GIS, Fernerkundung
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Wasserversorgung
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Hydrologie, Hydrogeologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Drought Monitoring
Michael J. Hayes, Mark D. Svoboda, Brian D. Wardlow, Martha C. Anderson, and Felix Kogan

Vegetation

Historical Perspectives on AVHRR NDVI and Vegetation Drought Monitoring
Assaf Anyamba and Compton J. Tucker

Vegetation Drought Response Index
Brian D. Wardlow, Tsegaye Tadesse, Jesslyn F. Brown, Karin Callahan, Sharmistha Swain, and Eric Hunt

The Vegetation Outlook (VegOut)
Tsegaye Tadesse, Brian D. Wardlow, Mark D. Svoboda, and Michael J. Hayes

Drought Monitoring Using Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation Estimates Derived from MERIS
Simone Rossi and Stefan Niemeyer

Evapotranspiration

Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration for Operational Drought Monitoring Using Principles of Water and Energy Balance
Gabriel B. Senay, Stefanie Bohms, and James P. Verdin

A Thermal-Based Evaporative Stress Index for Monitoring Surface Moisture Depletion
Martha C. Anderson, Christopher R. Hain, Brian D. Wardlow, Agustin Pimstein, John R. Mecikalski, and William P. Kustas

Agricultural Drought Monitoring in Kenya Using Evapotranspiration Derived from Remote Sensing and Reanalysis Data
Michael T. Marshall, Christopher Funk, and Joel Michaelsen

Soil Moisture/Ground Water

Microwave Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture
Son V. Nghiem, Brian D. Wardlow, David Allured, Mark D. Svoboda, Doug LeComte, Matthew Rosencrans, Steven K. Chan, and Gregory Neumann

North American Land Data Assimilation System
Justin Sheffield, Youlong Xia, Lifeng Luo, Eric F. Wood, Michael Ek, and Kenneth E. Mitchell

Satellite Gravimetry Applied to Drought Monitoring
Matthew Rodell

Precipitation

Estimating Precipitation from WSR-88D Observations and Rain Gauge Data
Gregory J. Story

Precipitation Estimation from Remotely Sensed Information Using Artificial Neural Networks
Amir AghaKouchak, Kuolin Hsu, Soroosh Sorooshian, Bisher Imam, and Xiaogang Gao

Mapping Recent Decadal Climate Variations in Precipitation and Temperature across Eastern Africa and the Sahel
Christopher Funk, Joel Michaelsen, and Michael T. Marshall

Snow Cover Monitoring from Remote-Sensing Satellites
Cezar Kongoli, Peter Romanov, and Ralph Ferraro

Summary

Future Opportunities and Challenges in Remote Sensing of Drought
Brian D. Wardlow, Martha C. Anderson, Justin Sheffield, Bradley D. Doorn, James P. Verdin, Xiwu Zhan, and Matthew Rodell

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Brian D. Wardlow is an assistant professor and GIScience program area leader for the National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC) in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. For more information, visit the National Drought Mitigation Center web site at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Martha C. Anderson is a physical scientist in the Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, Maryland. For more information, visit Dr. Anderson’s web page at USDA ARS.
James P. Verdin is a physical scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Early Warning and Environmental Monitoring (EWEM) Program. For more information, visit the EWEM web site.