Drought: A common environmental disaster

IR Orimoloye, JA Belle, YM Orimoloye, AO Olusola… - Atmosphere, 2022 - mdpi.com
Droughts have been identified as an environmental hazard by environmentalists, ecologists,
hydrologists, meteorologists, geologists, and agricultural experts. Droughts are …

Drought occurrence in different river basins of India and blockchain technology based framework for disaster management

V Poonia, MK Goyal, BB Gupta, AK Gupta, S Jha… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
Drought assessment is crucial to mitigate its adverse impact, especially in India, where risk
is more due to an increase in population and climate change. However, most of the studies …

Opportunities and challenges of Spaceborne sensors in delineating land surface temperature trends: A review

MR Ahmed, E Ghaderpour, A Gupta… - IEEE Sensors …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Understanding the land surface temperature (LST) trends is crucial for policymakers and
stakeholders to develop adaptation and mitigation strategies suitable for a sustainable …

Bedrock geochemistry influences vegetation growth by regulating the regolith water holding capacity

Z Jiang, H Liu, H Wang, J Peng, J Meersmans… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Although low vegetation productivity has been observed in karst regions, whether and how
bedrock geochemistry contributes to the low karstic vegetation productivity remain unclear …

Developing a remote sensing-based combined drought indicator approach for agricultural drought monitoring over Marathwada, India

SS Kulkarni, BD Wardlow, YA Bayissa, T Tadesse… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
The increasing drought severities and consequent devastating impacts on society over the
Indian semi-arid regions demand better drought monitoring and early warning systems …

Performance stability of the MODIS and VIIRS LAI algorithms inferred from analysis of long time series of products

K Yan, J Pu, T Park, B Xu, Y Zeng, G Yan… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The science teams of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Visible
Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) have been supporting various global climate …

Probabilistic evaluation of vegetation drought likelihood and its implications to resilience across India

S Jha, J Das, A Sharma, B Hazra, MK Goyal - Global and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
Vegetation distribution and growth are significantly affected by changing climate conditions.
Understanding the response of vegetation to hydroclimatic disturbances such as droughts is …

Evaluation of earth observation datasets for LST trends over India and its implication in global warming

PC Pandey, A Chauhan, NK Maurya - Ecological Informatics, 2022 - Elsevier
Land surface temperature (LST) is crucial in surface energy balance, urban climatology,
intensifying global change, ecological and environmental concerns. The present study …

Reprocessed MODIS Version 6.1 Leaf Area Index Dataset and Its Evaluation for Land Surface and Climate Modeling

W Lin, H Yuan, W Dong, S Zhang, S Liu, N Wei, X Lu… - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Satellite-based leaf area index (LAI) products, such as the MODIS LAI, play an essential role
in land surface and climate modeling research, from regional to global scales. However …

Multivariate modeling of projected drought frequency and hazard over India

V Gupta, M Kumar Jain, VP Singh - Journal of Hydrologic …, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
India is one of the most drought-vulnerable countries in the world and faces at least one
drought in one region or another every 3 years. To alleviate drought risk, an efficient policy …