Droughts can have strong environmental and socio-economic impacts in the Mediterranean
region, in particular for countries relying on rain-fed agricultural production, but also in areas …

Water resources are critical to the sustainability of life on Earth. With a growing population
and climate change, it is imperative to assess the security of these resources. Over the past …

The consequences of droughts are far-reaching, impacting the natural environment, water
quality, public health, and accelerating economic losses. Applications of remote sensing …

Agricultural drought has become a serious threat to the world food security and sustainable
development. Although various characteristics have been investigated for agricultural …

The substantial reliance of South Asia (SA) to rain-based agriculture makes the region
susceptible to food scarcity due to droughts. Previously, most research on SA has …

In this paper, we comprehensively evaluated the utility of integrated long-term satellite-
based precipitation and evapotranspiration products for drought monitoring over mainland …

Agricultural drought is one of most damaging agricultural hazards worldwide that can bring
significant agricultural losses and water scarcity. The use of satellite images for monitoring …

An increase in global warming has resulted in a global increase in meteorological droughts.
As droughts play a key factor regulating vegetation growth, they inevitably have social and …

Drought indices based on thermal remote sensing have been developed and have merit for
effective early warning of agricultural droughts, but approaches so far are relatively complex …

Abstract The Brazilian state of Pernambuco has approximately 88% of its territory located in
the semiarid region, suffering from the irregularities of precipitation and the phenomenon of …