Suitability Evaluation of Typical Drought Index in Soil Moisture Retrieval and Monitoring Based on Optical Images

Development and evaluation of Soil Moisture Deficit Index (SMDI) and Evapotranspiration Deficit Index (ETDI) for agricultural drought monitoring

Drought is one of the major natural hazards that bring about billions of dollars in loss to the farming community around theworld each year. Drought is most often caused by a departure of precipitation from the normal amount, and agriculture is often the first sector to be affected by the onset of drought due to its dependence on water resources and soil moisture reserves during various stages ...

Drought monitoring using deciles index standardized precipitation index and effective Drought index in tehran province iran

Soil moisture retrieval from optical and thermal spaceborne remote sensing.

Soil moisture is the water held in the soil within reach of plant roots and is one of the most important land environmental variables in perspective with land surface climatology, hydrology, and ecology. The soil moisture content (SMC) generally refers to the water contained in the upper 1-2 m of soil, which can potentially evaporate into the atmosphere. Variations in SMC have strong impacts on...

Soil moisture retrieval

Soil moisture retrieval through a merging of multi-temporal L-band SAR data and hydrologic modelling F. Mattia, G. Satalino, V. R. N. Pauwels, and A. Loew Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Studi sui Sistemi Intelligenti per l’Automazione (ISSIA), Bari, Italy Ghent University, Laboratory of Hydrology and Water Management (LHWM), Ghent, Belgium University of Munich (LMU), Department...

A Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithm Based on Meteosat Imagery

Global carbon budget studies are currently dominated by temperature analysis since the importance of this meteorological variable on photosynthesis processes and soil carbon dynamics. Yet, the strong coupling between the carbon and hydrological cycles is a longstanding acquisition of the biogeophysical sciences. To take the important aspect of water limitation in carbon studies into account, wa...