Remote sensing for drought monitoring & impact assessment: Progress, past challenges and future opportunities

H West, N Quinn, M Horswell - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Drought is a common hydrometeorological phenomenon and a pervasive global hazard. As
our climate changes, it is likely that drought events will become more intense and frequent …

Agricultural drought monitoring: Progress, challenges, and prospects

X Liu, X Zhu, Y Pan, S Li, Y Liu, Y Ma - Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2016 - Springer
In this paper, we compared the concept of agricultural drought and its relationship with other
types of droughts and reviewed the progress of research on agricultural drought monitoring …

Multi-sensor remote sensing for drought characterization: current status, opportunities and a roadmap for the future

W Jiao, L Wang, MF McCabe - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Satellite based remote sensing offers one of the few approaches able to monitor the spatial
and temporal development of regional to continental scale droughts. A unique element of …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of 18 satellite-and model-based soil moisture products using in situ measurements from 826 sensors

HE Beck, M Pan, DG Miralles… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2021 - hess.copernicus.org
Abstract Information about the spatiotemporal variability of soil moisture is critical for many
purposes, including monitoring of hydrologic extremes, irrigation scheduling, and prediction …

Substantial increase in concurrent droughts and heatwaves in the United States

O Mazdiyasni, A AghaKouchak - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
A combination of climate events (eg, low precipitation and high temperatures) may cause a
significant impact on the ecosystem and society, although individual events involved may …

Status and prospects for drought forecasting: Opportunities in artificial intelligence and hybrid physical–statistical forecasting

A AghaKouchak, B Pan… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Despite major improvements in weather and climate modelling and substantial increases in
remotely sensed observations, drought prediction remains a major challenge. After a review …

Version 4 of the SMAP level‐4 soil moisture algorithm and data product

RH Reichle, Q Liu, RD Koster, WT Crow… - Journal of Advances …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission Level‐4 Soil Moisture (L.
4_SM) product provides global, 3‐hourly, 9‐km resolution estimates of surface (0–5 cm) and …

[HTML][HTML] A Landsat-era Sierra Nevada snow reanalysis (1985–2015)

SA Margulis, G Cortés, M Girotto… - Journal of …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
A Landsat-Era Sierra Nevada Snow Reanalysis (1985–2015) in: Journal of
Hydrometeorology Volume 17 Issue 4 (2016) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation …

Comparison of contemporary in situ, model, and satellite remote sensing soil moisture with a focus on drought monitoring

TW Ford, SM Quiring - Water Resources Research, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Soil moisture is a key drought indicator; however, current in situ soil moisture infrastructure is
inadequate for large‐scale drought monitoring. One initiative of the ongoing National Soil …

[HTML][HTML] Extreme water deficit in Brazil detected from space

A Getirana - Journal of Hydrometeorology, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
Extreme droughts have caused significant socioeconomic and environmental damage
worldwide. In Brazil, ineffective energy development and water management policies have …