NIDIS Remote Sensing Contributions to Drought Monitoring Workshop
Extended Abstracts

Remote Sensing of Vegetation: Crops, Rangeland, and Forests
A 16-year time series of 1 km AVHRR satellite data of the conterminous United States and Alaska, Jeff Eidenshink, USGS, EROS

Using eMODIS Vegetation Indices for Operational Drought Monitoring, Jesslyn Brown, Calli Jenkerson, and Yingxin Gu SAIC, Contractor for the USGS/Center for EROS

The Vegetation Drought Response Index (VegDRI): A New Drought Monitoring Approach for Vegetation
Brian D. Wardlow1, Tsegaye Tadesse1, Jesslyn F. Brown2, and Yingxin Gu2
1 National Drought Mitigation Center (NDMC), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2 USGS Center for Earth Resources Observation Science (EROS)

Monitoring Drought and its Impacts on Vegetation from Space, Felix Kogan, NOAA, NESDIS

AVHRR and MODIS Vegetation Index Data for Rangeland Decision Support, Willem J.D. van Leeuwen and Stuart E. Marsh, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona,

Remote Sensing of Precipitation and Snow

Precipitation
Precipitation Analysis and their Applications in Drought Monitoring at NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, Pingping Xie, CPC, NCEP, NOAA

Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, Chris Funk, TRMM

NWS Precipitation Analysis Product, Victor Murphy, NWS Southern Region Headquarters, Ft. Worth, TX, Ken Pavelle, NWS Office of Hydrologic Development, Silver Spring, MD

Snow
NOAA’s National Snow Analyses, Don Cline, National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center, National Weather Service, NOAA

Northern Hemisphere Snow Extent Derived from Microwave and Optical Satellite Data, Richard L. Armstrong and Mary Jo Brodzik, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA

Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration and Soil Moisture/Groundwater

Soil Moisture/Groundwater
Satellite Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture for Drought Applications, Son V. Nghiem, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Water Storage and Application to Drought Monitoring, Matt Rodell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Evapotranspiration
Enhancing Water Management Decision Support Systems with High Spatio-temporal Resolution Mapping of Actual Evapotranspiration
Graeme Aggett, Riverside Technology inc., Fort Collins, CO.

Mapping Evapotranspiration and Drought at Local to Continental Scales with a Thermal-based Surface Energy Balance Model, Martha Anderson, USDA/ARS

Landscape Evapotranspiration Estimation Using Remotely Sensed Data for Operational Applications in Agriculture and Hydrology
Gabriel Senay, SAIC, contractor to USGS