Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought: A Global Study

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Vijendra K. Boken (Professor and Researcher, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of Georgia) Arthur P. Cracknell (Center for Remote Sensing and Environmental Monitoring, University of Dundee)

Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought

A Global Study

Vijendra K. Boken (Professor and Researcher, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of Georgia), Arthur P. Cracknell (Center for Remote Sensing and Environmental Monitoring, University of Dundee), Ronald L. Heathcote (School of Geography, Population, and Environmental Management, Flinders University of South Australia)

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Oxford University Press Inc
01 May 2005

Agriculture & related industries; Agricultural science; Tropical agriculture: practice & techniques

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.

By: Vijendra K. Boken (Professor and Researcher Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering University of Georgia), Arthur P. Cracknell (Center for Remote Sensing and Environmental Monitoring, University of Dundee), Ronald L. Heathcote (School of Geography, Population, and Environmental Management, Flinders University of South Australia)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 242mm, Width: 163mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 826g
ISBN: 9780195162349
ISBN 10: 019516234X
Pages: 492
Publication Date: 01 May 2005
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought: A Global Study

<br> 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<br> Quite simply, drought kills. In an effort to combat it, the international contributors of these 34 papers cover the basic concepts of agricultural drought and its monitoring, prediction and analysis, techniques and examples of remote sensing such as passive and active microwave systems, and case studies from the Americas, Europe, Russia, the Near East, Africa, Asia, and Australia. --SciTech Book News<br> The book is well written and edited. --CHOICE<br>