Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought

A Global Study

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

AvVijendra K. Boken,Arthur P. Cracknell,Ronald L. Heathcote

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2005-05-12
Mått156 x 234 x 26 mm
Vikt866 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor496
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780195162349

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Foreword by Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization Forward by Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization 1: Vijendra K. Boken: Agricultural Drought and its Monitoring and Prediction: Some Concepts 2: Keith T. Ingram: Drought Related Characteristics of Important Cereal Crops 3: Lino Naranjo D¢iaz: Monitoring Agricultural Drought using El Niño and Southern Oscillation Data 4: Zekai ,Sen and Vijendra K. Boken: Techniques to Predict Agricultural Droughts 5: Assaf Anyamba, Compton J. Tucker, Alfredo R. Huete, and Vijendra K. Boken: Drought Monitoring Using Coarse-Resolution Polar-Orbiting Satellite Data 6: Felix N. Kogan: NOAA/AVHRR Satellite Data Based Indices for Monitoring Agricultural Droughts 7: Thomas J. Jackson: Passive Microwaves Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture and Regional Drought Monitoring 8: Anne M. Smith, Klaus Scipal, and Wolfgang Wagner: Active Microwaves Systems for Drought Stress Monitoring 9: Donald A. Wilhite, Mark D. Svoboda, and Michael J. Hayes: Drought Monitoring in the United States: Status and Trends 10: J. Alfredo Rodríguez-Pineda, Lorrain Giddings, H¢etor Gadsden, and Vijendra K. Boken: Agricultural Droughts in North-Central Mexico 11: A. Anthony Chen, Trevor Falloon, and Michael Taylor: Agricultural Drought Monitoring for the West Indies 12: Orivaldo Brunini, Pedro Leite Da Silva Dias, Alice M. Grimm, Eduardo Delgado Assad, and Vijendra K. Boken: Agricultural Drought Phenomenon In Latin America With Focus On Brazil 13: Z. Bochenek, K. Dabrowska-Zielinska, A.Ciolkosz, S. Drupka, and V.K. Boken: Agricultural Drought Monitoring for Poland 14: Fátima Espírito Santo, Rita Guerreiro, Vanda Cabrinha Pires, Luís E. V. Pessanha, and Isabel M. Gomes: Agricultural Drought Monitoring in Mainland Portugal 15: A. D. Kleschenko, E. K. Zoidze, and V.K. Boken: Agricultural Drought Monitoring for Russia 16: Eddy De Pauw: Agricultural Drought Monitoring for the Near East 17: Engida Mersha and Vijendra K. Boken: Agricultural Droughts in Ethiopia 18: L. A. Ogallo, S. B. Otengi, P. Ambenje, W. Nyakwada , and F. Githui: Agricultural Drought Monitoring: The Case of Kenya 19: J. Rowland, J. Verdin, A.. Adoum, and G. Senay: Drought Monitoring Techniques for Famine Early Warning Systems in Africa 20: L. S. Unganai and T. Bandason: Agricultural Drought Monitoring for Southern Africa 21: Marion Pratt, Macol Stewart Cerda, Mohammed Boulahya, and Kelly Sponberg: Harnessing Radio and Internet Systems to Monitor and Mitigate Agricultural Droughts in Rural African Communities 22: Jerry W. Stuth, Jay Angerer, Robert Kaitho, Abdi Jama, and Raphael Marambii: Livestock Early Warning System for Africa Rangelands 23: A.S. Rao and V.K. Boken: Agricultural Drought Monitoring and Management in India 24: Ahsan U. Ahmed, A. Iqbal, and A.M. Choudhury: Agricultural Droughts in Bangladesh 25: Apisit Eiumnoh, Rajendra P. Shrestha, and Vijendra K. Boken: A Drought Warning System for Thailand 26: Rizaldi Boer and A.R. Subbiah: Agricultural Droughts in Indonesia 27: Nguyen van Viet and Vijendra K. Boken: Agricultural Droughts in Vietnam 28: Guoliang Tian and Vijendra K. Boken: Monitoring Agricultural Droughts in China 29: K. A. Day, K. G. Rickert, and G. M. McKeon: Agricultural Drought Monitoring for Australia 30: H. Ryong Byun, S. Young Hong, and Vijendra K. Boken: Agricultural Drought Monitoring for South Korea 31: M.V.K. Sivakumar: World Meteorological Organization and Agricultural Droughts 32: Elijah Mukhala: Food and Agriculture Organization and Agricultural Drought 33: Ashbindu Singh: International Activities Related to Dryland Degradation Assessment and Drought Early Warning 34: Gennady V. Menzhulin, Sergey P. Savvateyev, Arthur P. Cracknell, and Vijendra K. Boken: Climate Change, Global Warming, and Agricultural Droughts