Drought Monitoring Using MODIS Land Surface Temperature and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index Products in Semi-Arid Areas of Iran

Subject Areas : Analysis and Evaluation

Elham Rafiei Sardooi ¹ ( Assistant Professor, Department of Ecological Engineering, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Jiroft, Kerman, Iran )
Ali Azareh ² ( Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Jiroft, Kerman, Iran. )
Hadi Eskandari Damaneh ³ ( Ph.D Candidate of Combating Desertification, Department of Natural Resources Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Hormozgan, Iran )
Hamed Skandari Damaneh ⁴ ( Ph.D Candidate of Combating Desertification, Department of Arid and Mountainous Regions Reclamation, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Iran. )

Received: 2020-06-11 Accepted : 2021-04-12 Published : 2021-10-01

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