Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought: A Global Study - Hardcover

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

 
9780195162349: Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought: A Global Study
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.

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