@article{12ca39d0a8bc4d30b0969323bae3afc0,
title = "The Vegetation Drought Response Index (VegDRI): A new integrated approach for monitoring drought stress in vegetation",
abstract = "The development of new tools that provide timely, detailed-spatial-resolution drought information is essential for improving drought preparedness and response. This paper presents a new method for monitoring drought-induced vegetation stress called the Vegetation Drought Response Index (VegDRI). VegDRI integrates traditional climate-based drought indicators and satellite-derived vegetation index metrics with other biophysical information to produce a I km map of drought conditions that can be produced in near-real time. The initial VegDRI map results for a 2002 case study conducted across seven states in the north-central United States illustrates the utility of VegDRI for improved large-area drought monitoring.",
author = "Brown, {Jesslyn F.} and Wardlow, {Brian D.} and Tsegaye Tadesse and Hayes, {Michael J.} and Reed, {Bradley C.}",
note = "Funding Information: The research performed by Jesslyn Brown was carried out under USGS contract 03CRCN0001. Support was also provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture{\textquoteright}s Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC) through the Risk Management Agency (RMA) under USDA partnership (02-IE-0831-0208) with the National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The climate data used in this study were acquired from the High Plains Regional Climate Center (HPRCC) and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering{\textquoteright}s National Agricultural Decision Support System (NADSS) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The authors also wish to thank A. Haacke for her administrative support, D. Wood for her editorial suggestions, and the reviewers of the manuscript for their helpful suggestions.",
year = "2008",
month = jan,
doi = "10.2747/1548-1603.45.1.16",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "45",
pages = "16--46",
journal = "GIScience and Remote Sensing",
issn = "1548-1603",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Ltd.",
number = "1",
}