Earth Observations for Early Detection of Agricultural Drought: Contributions of the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET)
Michael E Budde1, Christopher Funk2, Gregory J Husak3, Pete Peterson4, James Rowland1, Gabriel B Senay5 and James P Verdin6, (1)U.S. Geological Survey, Sioux Falls, United States, (2)USGS, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (4)University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (5)USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center Sioux Falls, Fort Collins, United States, (6)University of Maryland, Boulder, United States