Freshwater resources are becoming increasingly limited in many parts of the world, and
decision makers are demanding new tools for monitoring water availability and rates of …

Formal planning and development of what became the first Landsat satellite commenced
over 50 years ago in 1967. Now, having collected earth observation data for well over four …

Due to the influence of evaporation on land‐surface temperature, thermal remote sensing
data provide valuable information regarding the surface moisture status. The Atmosphere‐…

Information about vegetation water content (VWC) has widespread utility in agriculture, forestry,
and hydrology. It is also useful in retrieving soil moisture from microwave remote sensing …

This review surveys current and emerging drought monitoring approaches using satellite
remote sensing observations from climatological and ecosystem perspectives. We argue that …

Landsat 8, a NASA and USGS collaboration, acquires global moderate-resolution measurements
of the Earth's terrestrial and polar regions in the visible, near-infrared, short wave, and …

Robust satellite‐derived moisture stress indices will be beneficial to operational drought
monitoring, both in the United States and globally. Using thermal infrared imagery from the …

Since 1972, the Landsat program has been continually monitoring the Earth, to now provide
50 years of digital, multispectral, medium spatial resolution observations. Over this time, …

The reliability of standard meteorological drought indices based on measurements of
precipitation is limited by the spatial distribution and quality of currently available rainfall data. …

WE ARE ENTERING A NEW ERA IN THE LANDSAT Program, the oldest and most venerable
of our Earth-observing satellite programs. With little fanfare, the US Geological Survey (…