Ecosystem services refer to the direct and indirect benefits to humanity from an ecosystem.
The ability to spatially incorporate multiple biophysical environments is crucial to ecosystem …

Over the last 150 years, there has been a dramatic increase in research focusing on
droughts in every part of the world, due to their negative impacts on multiple sectors, the …

Increasing demand for food and environmental stressors are some of the most challenging
problems that human societies face today and these have encouraged new studies to …

Drought is one of the climatic events that threaten water availability, food security, and local
livelihoods in semi-arid areas. Whilst studies have evolved on the impacts of climate change …

A composite drought index (CDI) was developed for seasonal drought monitoring at 1 km 2
resolution over the West African Sahel (WAS). The CDI was derived from remote sensing …

Terra MOD13Q1 satellite data were used to assess drought disaster events and its
spatiotemporal patterns over the Free State Province, South Africa between 2001 and 2019 …

Water security has been an evolving and swiftly develo** research area, which is linked to
the Water Footprint, Water Sustainability and Water Productivity (WFSP) concept, essential …

Drought severity and its associated impacts remain persistent in the water-stressed regions
of the world including the Sahel of Africa. Across the Sahel, there exist limited ground …

Current climate projections for Southern Africa indicate an increase in the incidence of
extreme weather events in the future. Even though South Africa does not rank among the …

Geographic information systems and remote sensing techniques are useful for the study of
natural and man-made disasters. The current research implements remote sensing and a …