Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought: A Global Study - Hardcover

Boken, Vijendra K.; Cracknell, Arthur P.; Heathcote, Ronald L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019516234X ISBN 13: 9780195162349

Publisher: OUP USA, 2005

Synopsis

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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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)

Synopsis

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 agricultural drought, various remote sensing techniques used to monitor them, and efforts by international organizations to check them.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019516234X
• ISBN 13: 9780195162349
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 496