Thursday 30 April 2026
In many dryland regions, rainfall patterns no longer tell the full story of drought. Even when rains are near normal, rising atmospheric demand driven by global warming can quietly drain soil moisture and stress vegetation — a growing challenge known as aridity intensification.
In our latest work, we show that combining cutting edge narrow ("hyper") spectral and thermal infrared features detected from space can significantly improve how we track this hidden stress.
Why it matters?
- Earlier and more accurate drought detection means better decisions — from farmer advisories to insurance triggers and food security planning.
- With upcoming satellite missions like CHIME, SBG, Landsat Next, Sentinel-2 Next Generation (S2NG), and LSTM, this kind of multi-sensor approach is becoming operationally realistic.
The work is featured in the a special issue of Remote Sensing of Environment: "Remote sensing for assessing water-carbon coupling of terrestrial ecosystems."
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- Mon 1 Jul 2024Link for Past Webinar: "Dryland drought monitoring with evapotranspiration and hyperspectral remote sensing"
- Sun 16 Jun 20242024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
