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Remote sensing of drought: Progress, challenges and opportunities

AghaKouchak, A., Farahmand, A., Melton, F. S., Teixeira, J., Anderson, M. C., Wardlow, B. D., and Hain, C. R., 2015. Remote sensing of drought: Progress, challenges and opportunities. Reviews of Geophysics, 53(2):452–480, doi:10.1002/2014RG000456.

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@ARTICLE{2015RvGeo..53..452A,
       author = {{AghaKouchak}, A. and {Farahmand}, A. and {Melton}, F.~S. and {Teixeira}, J. and {Anderson}, M.~C. and {Wardlow}, B.~D. and {Hain}, C.~R.},
        title = "{Remote sensing of drought: Progress, challenges and opportunities}",
      journal = {Reviews of Geophysics},
     keywords = {drought, remote sensing},
         year = 2015,
        month = jun,
       volume = {53},
       number = {2},
        pages = {452-480},
     abstract = "{This review surveys current and emerging drought monitoring approaches
        using satellite remote sensing observations from climatological
        and ecosystem perspectives. We argue that satellite observations
        not currently used for operational drought monitoring, such as
        near-surface air relative humidity data from the Atmospheric
        Infrared Sounder mission, provide opportunities to improve early
        drought warning. Current and future satellite missions offer
        opportunities to develop composite and multi-indicator drought
        models. While there are immense opportunities, there are major
        challenges including data continuity, unquantified uncertainty,
        sensor changes, and community acceptability. One of the major
        limitations of many of the currently available satellite
        observations is their short length of record. A number of
        relevant satellite missions and sensors (e.g., the Gravity
        Recovery and Climate Experiment) provide only a decade of data,
        which may not be sufficient to study droughts from a climate
        perspective. However, they still provide valuable information
        about relevant hydrologic and ecological processes linked to
        this natural hazard. Therefore, there is a need for models and
        algorithms that combine multiple data sets and/or assimilate
        satellite observations into model simulations to generate long-
        term climate data records. Finally, the study identifies a major
        gap in indicators for describing drought impacts on the carbon
        and nitrogen cycle, which are fundamental to assessing drought
        impacts on ecosystems.}",
          doi = {10.1002/2014RG000456},
       adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015RvGeo..53..452A},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}

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