Is this drought normal? How Earth Observation data can help you understand drought hazard and benchmark your risk
Drought is one of the main natural causes of agricultural, economic, and environmental damage. The effects of drought on the environment and agriculture are evident after a long period with a shortage of precipitation, making it very difficult to determine the onset of drought, its extent and end.
The EO time-series datasets can build understanding about the scale of effects associated with different drought impacts, helping to develop early food security assessments in specific geographic areas or contingency planning and emergency preparedness for future shocks in a country. It can also improve understanding of the drivers and causes of food insecurity in areas and identify which investments or risk management strategies are best.
This webinar will present how Earth Observation data with different spatial and temporal resolution can provide information on drought events.
This session is part of a webinar series on using Earth Observation (EO) to tackle climate change. Click here to see all the webinar series.