MONITORING AND PREDICTING AGRICULTURAL DROUGHT - A GLOBAL STUDY

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. The final papers address international efforts to predict and control drought and its effects and issues of climate change.