Advanced Webinar: Remote Sensing of Drought

Remote Sensing of Drought

NASA ARSET

Fri, 9 Aug 2019

Prolonged drought can result in economic, environmental, and health-related impacts. In this webinar, participants will learn how to monitor drought conditions and assess impacts on the ecosystem using precipitation, soil moisture, and vegetation data. The training will provide an overview of drought classification, as well as an introduction to web-based tools for drought monitoring and visualization. Lectures will be followed by hands-on demonstrations of data access and visualization.

Learning Objectives: 

By the end of the training, participants will be able to:

  • Understand how remote sensing can be used for drought monitoring
  • Acquire remotely-sensed imagery and products for drought
  • Analyze drought data and calculate anomalies within a geospatial software
Course Format: 
  • Two, 2 hour sessions

List of Relevant Tools and Data Portals

 

Prerequisites: 

Attendees that do not complete prerequisites may not be properly prepared for the pace and exercises during the training.

 

Regional, state, federal, and international organizations interested in using remote sensing to monitor drought. Professional organizations in the public and private sectors engaged in environmental management and monitoring will be given preference over organizations focused primarily on research.
English
web-based