Using Satellite Images for Drought Monitoring

Dear Colleagues,

Climate change and its variability have made drought a recurrent phenomenon in many parts of the world. Frequent and severe drought often results in serious economic, social, and environmental crises. Producing reliable and timely information for decision makers is of the utmost importance.

Traditionally, drought assessment and monitoring efforts have been made with conventional methods that are based on point data. At the present, however, the frequency of using data from satellite sensors is ever-increasing in many aspects of practice related to drought.

Due to the fact that satellite imageries can provide continuous datasets that can be used to detect the onset of a drought as well as its duration and magnitude, remote sensing is considered to be far superior to conventional methods for drought monitoring and early warning applications. Of course, many difficult challenges are waiting for research attention in applying satellite data for drought monitoring.

This Special issue is aimed at archiving recent achievements in extracting knowledge from satellite imageries and its use for near real-time drought monitoring. We invite original papers on recent advances in drought monitoring technologies based on satellite images as well as review articles that summarize the current state of understanding in this field of study.

Dr.  Sang-Il Lee
Guest Editor

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