An integrated method for identifying present status and risk of drought in Bangladesh

• Main Authors: R. Sarker, Md. Latifur, Janet, Nichol, Mansor, Siti A., Ahmad, Baharin, Shahid, Shamsuddin, Chung, Eun Sung, Reid, Jeffrey S., Siswanto, Eko
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020
• Subjects: G70.39-70.6 Remote sensing
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/90953/1/ShamsuddinShahid2020_AnIntegratedMethodforIdentifyingPresentStatus.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/90953/; http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/RS12172686
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

The occurrence and severity of agricultural droughts may not be dependent upon climatic variables alone. Rather increasingly, drought is affected by human interventions such as irrigation. Anthropogenic activity has introduced uncertainty in the assessment of current drought and future drought risk...