Monitoring And Predicting Agricultural Drought

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the techniques used to monitor and predict agricultural droughts, with a focus on developed and developing countries. It covers the history of drought monitoring, the various remote sensing techniques used to detect drought, and the efforts of international organizations to monitor and predict droughts.

Accurate monitoring and prediction of agricultural droughts helps manage them, minimize losses attributed to them, and mitigate their extreme forms, which some countries face even today. This book presents the basic concepts of agricultual drought, various remote sensing techniques used to monitor them, and efforts by international organizations to check them. Review: This book's 34 chapters provide quite a thorough and capable overv0ew of the techniques used to monitor drought in both developed and developing countires... Monitoring and Prediciting Agricultural Drought has a wealth of information on crops,climate, and drought monintoring techniques for 19 countries and regions of the world. Bulletin of American Meteorological Society