Soil moisture observations are of broad scientific interest and practical value for a wide
range of applications. The scientific community has made significant progress in estimating …

Agricultural drought poses a serious threat to national food security, and the investigation on
the propagation from meteorological to agricultural drought plays an important role in …

Global products of remote sensing Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) are
critical to assessing the vegetation dynamic and its impacts and feedbacks on climate …

The African continent has a long history of rainfall fluctuations of varying duration and
intensities. This has led to varying degrees of drought conditions, triggering research interest …

Land surface temperature (LST) plays a critical role in the water cycle and energy balance at
global and regional scales. Large-scale LST estimates can be obtained from satellite …

In this paper, we comprehensively evaluated the utility of integrated long-term satellite-
based precipitation and evapotranspiration products for drought monitoring over mainland …

ABSTRACT Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) and Standardized Precipitation
Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI), traditionally derived at a monthly scale, are widely used …

Groundwater drought could cause tremendous damage to the social-economy via land
subsidence, seawater intrusion and permanent loss of aquifer storage capacity, and often …

Drought is a complex and extremely destructive natural disaster that seriously threatens the
sustainable development of human society and ecosystems. The integrated drought index …

Droughts are among the most complex and devastating natural hazards globally. High-
resolution datasets of drought metrics are essential for monitoring and quantifying the …