The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission operationally monitors semi-arid countries using Earth Observation (EO) systems. This contribution describes the application of a new method for assessing vegetation condition with a focus on biomass indicators. The method, based on the retrieval of vegetation phenology from SPOT-VEGETATION satellite data, was used to assess the extent and the impact of the drought that hit the Horn of Africa region (HoA) in 2010-2011.
MERONI Michele;
VERSTRAETE Michel;
REMBOLD Felix;
URBANO Ferdinando;
KAYITAKIRE Francois;
2013-01-10
NEREUS/ESA
JRC70636
http://esamultimedia.esa.int/multimedia/publications/NEREUS/,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC70636,
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