6 pp. / Remotely sensed data are valuable for monitoring, assessing, and managing impacts to arid and semi-arid lands caused by drought or other changes in the natural environment. With this in mind, we collaborated with scientists and technologists to redevelop DroughtView, a web-based decision-support tool that combines satellite-derived measures of surface greenness with additional geospatial data so that users can visualize and evaluate vegetation dynamics across space and over time. To date, users of DroughtView have been local drought impact groups, ranchers, federal and state land management staff, environmental scientists, and plant geographers. Potential new applications may include helping to track wildland fire danger. Here, we present the functionality of DroughtView, including new capabilities to report drought impacts and share map information, as well as the data behind it.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/625291 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Weiss, Jeremy, Crimmins, Michael |
| Publisher | College of Agriculture, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ) |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Book |
| Source | CALS Publications Archive. The University of Arizona. |
| Rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Relation | University of Arizona Cooperative Extension Service and Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin, http://uacals.org/6mt |
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