Microwave remote sensing for agricultural drought monitoring: Recent developments and challenges

M Vreugdenhil, I Greimeister-Pfeil… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Agricultural droughts are extreme events which are often a result of interplays between
multiple hydro-meteorological processes. Therefore, assessing drought occurrence, extent …

[HTML][HTML] Satellite-based soil moisture enhances the reliability of agro-hydrological modeling in large transboundary river basins

MR Eini, C Massari, M Piniewski - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Satellite-based observations of soil moisture, leaf area index, precipitation, and
evapotranspiration facilitate agro-hydrological modeling thanks to the spatially distributed …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of process-based and statistical approaches for simulation and projections of rainfed crop yields

MR Eini, H Salmani, M Piniewski - Agricultural Water Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Accurate and comprehensive modelling aimed at investigating the impact of climate change
on rainfed crop yields is of great importance due to the interconnected issues of water …

Linkages between rainfed cereal production and agricultural drought through remote sensing indices and a land data assimilation system: A case study in Morocco

EH Bouras, L Jarlan, S Er-Raki, C Albergel, B Richard… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
In Morocco, cereal production shows high interannual variability due to uncertain rainfall
and recurrent drought periods. Considering the socioeconomic importance of cereal for the …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of soil moisture at different depths for drought monitoring based on improved soil moisture anomaly percentage index

Z Xu, Z Wu, H He, X Guo, Y Zhang - Water Science and Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
To better understand the characteristics and mechanisms of droughts at different drought
stages, this study selected the Xiangjiang River Basin in China as the study area, and …

[HTML][HTML] Predictive value of soil moisture and concurrent variables in the multivariate modelling of cereal yields in water-limited environments

J Gaona, P Benito-Verdugo… - Agricultural Water …, 2023 - Elsevier
Rainfed cereal yields show high variability depending on the varying conditions of
concurrent factors during the crop year. Among them, hydrometeorological factors such as …

Monitoring droughts from GRACE

BD Vishwakarma - Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
With ongoing climate change, we are staring at possibly longer and more severe droughts in
the future. Therefore, monitoring and understanding duration and intensity of droughts, and …

Temporal and Spatial variations of soil moisture over Xinjiang based on multiple GLDAS datasets

Z Hu, X Chen, Y Li, Q Zhou, G Yin - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Under the global warming, as the typical arid region of Central Asia, the Xinjiang Uygur
Autonomous Region (Xinjiang) has been experienced the remarkable warming and …

Comparison between canonical vine copulas and a meta-Gaussian model for forecasting agricultural drought over China

H Wu, X Su, VP Singh, T Zhang, J Qi… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2022 - hess.copernicus.org
Agricultural drought mainly stems from reduced soil moisture and precipitation, and it causes
adverse impacts on the growth of crops and vegetation, thereby affecting agricultural …

Remotely Sensed Agriculture Drought Indices for Assessing the Impact on Cereal Yield

M Khlif, MJ Escorihuela, A Chahbi Bellakanji… - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study aims to analyze the potential of different drought indices for identifying drought
periods and predicting cereal yield in two semi-arid regions, Lleida in Catalonia and …