hossein Nikpey; Mehdi Momeni
Abstract
Drought is an important phenomenon which can be monitored based on weather data obtained from weather stations and remote sensing data. Remote sensing methods have offered significant relative advantages compared to the other methods for monitoring drought . Also , several drought indicators have provided ...
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Drought is an important phenomenon which can be monitored based on weather data obtained from weather stations and remote sensing data. Remote sensing methods have offered significant relative advantages compared to the other methods for monitoring drought . Also , several drought indicators have provided in remote sensing for monitoring drought , but none of the common indicators in remote sensing did not have generalizability of time , climate and altitude and it is necessary the performance quality of these indexes 1) in climates, 2) in altitudinal zoning examined .This study also proved this hypothesis , to identify appropriate indicators in every altitudinal zone , and in every region the index considered the appropriate season to evaluate indexes . In this study , drought indices ,VCI ,VDI ,TCI and TVDI by LST parameter , NDVI and EVI have been evaluated. To evaluate climate and altitudinal indicators , first in the whole country and then in Hamadan province , climate and altitudinal zoning done and drought indexes for different climates and altitude was determined in two forms pixel-based and object-based (polygons) and compared to precipitation data TRMM sensors . The operation of drought indexes were analyzed to drought evaluation by taking account climate type , data acquisition season , altitude and area . The results of this research shows lack of generalizability of all indictors in terms of climate , altitude and time indicators and for example , in pixel evaluating of hot and dry climate , the highest correlation between VCI index and precipitation data was in June and the lowest correlation is in December.
