Monitoring and predicting agricultural drought : a global study /

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Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Description:1 online resource (xix, 472 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
Series:OUP E-Books.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11137491
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Other authors / contributors:Boken, Vijendra K.
Cracknell, Arthur P.
Heathcote, R. L.
World Meteorological Organization.
ISBN:9780195162349
019516234X
9780198036784
0198036787
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9781423720263
9781601196811
1601196814
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9781280532856
9786610532858
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9781433701078
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Summary: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 agricultural drought, various remote sensing techniques used to monitor them, and efforts by international organizations to check them.
Other form:Print version: Monitoring and predicting agricultural drought. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005 019516234X