The use of satellite data for agriculture drought risk quantification in Ukraine

This paper focuses on drought risk assessment using satellite data. Methods of the extreme value theory (EVT) are applied for a time series of vegetation health index (VHI) derived from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellites in order to provide drought hazard mapping. A Poiss...

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Main Authors: Sergii Skakun, Nataliia Kussul, Andrii Shelestov, Olga Kussul
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2016-05-01
Series:Geomatics, Natural Hazards & Risk
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19475705.2015.1016555