new Extension bulletin on the functionality and data behind DroughtView

[Weiss, Jeremy Lee - (jlweiss)]

DroughtView: Satellite-based Drought Monitoring and Assessment

Remotely sensed data are valuable for monitoring, assessing, and managing impacts to arid and semi-arid lands caused by drought or other changes in the natural environment. With this in mind, we collaborated with scientists and technologists to redevelop DroughtView, a web-based decision-support tool that combines satellite-derived measures of surface greenness with additional geospatial data so that users can visualize and evaluate vegetation dynamics across space and over time. To date, users of DroughtView have been local drought impact groups, ranchers, federal and state land management staff, environmental scientists, and plant geographers. Potential new applications may include helping to track wildland fire danger. Here, we present the functionality of DroughtView, including new capabilities to report drought impacts and share map information, as well as the data behind it.

cals.arizona.edu/research/climategem/resources/Weiss&Crimmins(2017)UACEDroughtView.pdf<https://cals.arizona.edu/research/climategem/resources/Weiss&Crimmins(2017)UACEDroughtView.pdf>


Jeremy Weiss, Climate and Geospatial Extension Scientist
School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona
520-626-8063, jlweiss at email.arizona.edu<mailto:jlweiss at email.arizona.edu>

Michael Crimmins, Climate Science Extension Specialist
Department of Soil, Water, and Environmental Science, University of Arizona
520-626-4244, crimmins at email.arizona.edu<mailto:crimmins at email.arizona.edu>


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Jeremy L. Weiss, PhD
Climate and Geospatial Extension Scientist
School of Natural Resources and the Environment
University of Arizona

website:
http://cals.arizona.edu/research/climategem

office phone:
1.520.626.8063

mailing address:
1064 East Lowell Street
P.O. Box 210137
Tucson, AZ 85721-0137

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