About the Book
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 agricultual drought, various remote sensing techniques used to monitor them, and efforts by international organizations to check them.
Table of Contents:
Foreword by Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization
Forward by Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization
1: Vijendra K. Boken: Agricultural Drought and its Monitoring and Prediction: Some Concepts
2: Keith T. Ingram: Drought Related Characteristics of Important Cereal Crops
3: Lino Naranjo D¢iaz: Monitoring Agricultural Drought using El Niño and Southern Oscillation Data
4: Zekai ,Sen and Vijendra K. Boken: Techniques to Predict Agricultural Droughts
5: Assaf Anyamba, Compton J. Tucker, Alfredo R. Huete, and Vijendra K. Boken: Drought Monitoring Using Coarse-Resolution Polar-Orbiting Satellite Data
6: Felix N. Kogan: NOAA/AVHRR Satellite Data Based Indices for Monitoring Agricultural Droughts
7: Thomas J. Jackson: Passive Microwaves Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture and Regional Drought Monitoring
8: Anne M. Smith, Klaus Scipal, and Wolfgang Wagner: Active Microwaves Systems for Drought Stress Monitoring
9: Donald A. Wilhite, Mark D. Svoboda, and Michael J. Hayes: Drought Monitoring in the United States: Status and Trends
10: J. Alfredo Rodríguez-Pineda, Lorrain Giddings, H¢etor Gadsden, and Vijendra K. Boken: Agricultural Droughts in North-Central Mexico
11: A. Anthony Chen, Trevor Falloon, and Michael Taylor: Agricultural Drought Monitoring for the West Indies
12: Orivaldo Brunini, Pedro Leite Da Silva Dias, Alice M. Grimm, Eduardo Delgado Assad, and Vijendra K. Boken: Agricultural Drought Phenomenon In Latin America With Focus On Brazil
13: Z. Bochenek, K. Dabrowska-Zielinska, A.Ciolkosz, S. Drupka, and V.K. Boken: Agricultural Drought Monitoring for Poland
14: Fátima Espírito Santo, Rita Guerreiro, Vanda Cabrinha Pires, Luís E. V. Pessanha, and Isabel M. Gomes: Agricultural Drought Monitoring in Mainland Portugal
15: A. D. Kleschenko, E. K. Zoidze, and V.K. Boken: Agricultural Drought Monitoring for Russia
16: Eddy De Pauw: Agricultural Drought Monitoring for the Near East
17: Engida Mersha and Vijendra K. Boken: Agricultural Droughts in Ethiopia
18: L. A. Ogallo, S. B. Otengi, P. Ambenje, W. Nyakwada , and F. Githui: Agricultural Drought Monitoring: The Case of Kenya
19: J. Rowland, J. Verdin, A.. Adoum, and G. Senay: Drought Monitoring Techniques for Famine Early Warning Systems in Africa
20: L. S. Unganai and T. Bandason: Agricultural Drought Monitoring for Southern Africa
21: Marion Pratt, Macol Stewart Cerda, Mohammed Boulahya, and Kelly Sponberg: Harnessing Radio and Internet Systems to Monitor and Mitigate Agricultural Droughts in Rural African Communities
22: Jerry W. Stuth, Jay Angerer, Robert Kaitho, Abdi Jama, and Raphael Marambii: Livestock Early Warning System for Africa Rangelands
23: A.S. Rao and V.K. Boken: Agricultural Drought Monitoring and Management in India
24: Ahsan U. Ahmed, A. Iqbal, and A.M. Choudhury: Agricultural Droughts in Bangladesh
25: Apisit Eiumnoh, Rajendra P. Shrestha, and Vijendra K. Boken: A Drought Warning System for Thailand
26: Rizaldi Boer and A.R. Subbiah: Agricultural Droughts in Indonesia
27: Nguyen van Viet and Vijendra K. Boken: Agricultural Droughts in Vietnam
28: Guoliang Tian and Vijendra K. Boken: Monitoring Agricultural Droughts in China
29: K. A. Day, K. G. Rickert, and G. M. McKeon: Agricultural Drought Monitoring for Australia
30: H. Ryong Byun, S. Young Hong, and Vijendra K. Boken: Agricultural Drought Monitoring for South Korea
31: M.V.K. Sivakumar: World Meteorological Organization and Agricultural Droughts
32: Elijah Mukhala: Food and Agriculture Organization and Agricultural Drought
33: Ashbindu Singh: International Activities Related to Dryland Degradation Assessment and Drought Early Warning
34: Gennady V. Menzhulin, Sergey P. Savvateyev, Arthur P. Cracknell, and Vijendra K. Boken: Climate Change, Global Warming, and Agricultural Droughts
