Frequency, duration and severity of drought in the Semiarid Northeast Brazil region

SSB Brito, APMA Cunha… - International Journal …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Drought is the natural disaster that impacts the greatest number of people and produces the
most significant economic losses. This work presents a quantitative assessment of drought …

Index-based insurance and hydroclimatic risk management in agriculture: A systematic review of index selection and yield-index modelling methods

MJ Abdi, N Raffar, Z Zulkafli, K Nurulhuda… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study we systematically reviewed the available literature on weather index insurance
design between 2001 and 2020. In recent years, there has been a marked increase in ex …

Drought monitoring over Yellow River basin from 2003–2019 using reconstructed MODIS land surface temperature in Google Earth Engine

X Zhao, H Xia, L Pan, H Song, W Niu, R Wang, R Li… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Drought is one of the most complex and least-understood environmental disasters that can
trigger environmental, societal, and economic problems. To accurately assess the drought …

Assessing drought in the drylands of northeast Brazil under regional warming exceeding 4 C

JA Marengo, APMA Cunha, CA Nobre… - Natural Hazards, 2020 - Springer
Historically, during periods of extreme drought, food security in the drylands of the semiarid
region of Northeast Brazil (NEB) is under severe risk due to agricultural collapse. The …

Risk of crop failure due to compound dry and hot extremes estimated with nested copulas

AFS Ribeiro, A Russo, CM Gouveia… - Biogeosciences …, 2020 - bg.copernicus.org
Drought and heat events stress agricultural systems and may threaten food security. The
interaction between co-occurring drought and hot conditions is often particularly damaging …

Agricultural drought mitigating indices derived from the changes in drought characteristics

B Wu, Z Ma, N Yan - Remote sensing of environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Droughts can cause tremendous losses to agricultural and economic development; humans
have explored many anti-drought measures to mitigate the influence of drought and …

Assessing within-field corn and soybean yield variability from WorldView-3, Planet, Sentinel-2, and Landsat 8 satellite imagery

S Skakun, NI Kalecinski, MGL Brown, DM Johnson… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Crop yield monitoring is an important component in agricultural assessment. Multi-spectral
remote sensing instruments onboard space-borne platforms such as Advanced Very High …

Meteorological drought analysis in the Lower Mekong Basin using satellite-based long-term CHIRPS product

H Guo, A Bao, T Liu, F Ndayisaba, D He, A Kurban… - Sustainability, 2017 - mdpi.com
Lower Mekong Basin (LMB) experiences a recurrent drought phenomenon. However, few
studies have focused on drought monitoring in this region due to lack of ground …

A comprehensive drought index based on remote sensing data and nested copulas for monitoring meteorological and agroecological droughts: A case study on the …

Y Cheng, K Zhang, L Chao, W Shi, J Feng… - Environmental Modelling & …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study proposes a new comprehensive remote sensing drought index (CRSDI) based on
the nested copulas of remotely sensed precipitation, vegetation index, and land surface …

Modified drought severity index: Model improvement and its application in drought monitoring in China

P Sun, Z Ma, Q Zhang, VP Singh, CY Xu - Journal of Hydrology, 2022 - Elsevier
With advancement of remote sensing techniques, remote-sensing drought indices have
been widely used for drought monitoring. However, the monitoring accuracy of a specific …