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Title:   Author  item
                                            CHOI, MINHA - Hanyang Universityitem
                                            JACOBS, JENNIFER - University Of New Hampshireitem
                                            Anderson, Marthaitem
                                            BHAT, SHIRISH - Collaboratoritem
                                            Bosch, David

                                                         - *Dave*
  Submitted to: Remote Sensing of Environment
                                    Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
                                    Publication Acceptance Date: 10/26/2012
                                    Publication  Date: 1/1/2013
                                    Citation: Choi, M., Jacobs, J., Anderson, M.C., Bhat, S., Bosch, D.D. 2013. Evaluation of drought indices via 1 remotely sensed data with hydrological variables: Little river experimental watershed, Georgia U.S.. Remote Sensing of Environment. 476:265-273.Interpretive Summary: To evaluate the utility of new drought mapping products over the US, they are typically compared at continental scales with maps of precipitation anomalies or with classifications recorded in the U.S. Drought Monitor.  In this paper, a new drought index based on remote sensing of evapotranspiration (ET) (the Evaporative Stress Index, or ESI) is evaluated regionally over the southeastern US in comparison with spatially distributed soil moisture and streamflow observations and other remote sensing drought indices.  The ESI was able to capture fluctuations in the hydrologic observables, and shows promise for drought monitoring in this region.
                                Technical Abstract: An intercomparison among standard and remotely sensed drought indices was conducted using streamflow and soil moisture measurements collected in the Little River experimental watershed, Georgia US, during the period from 2000 to 2008. The remotely sensed Evaporative Stress Index (ESI) was identified as a promising drought index for characterizing streamflow and soil moisture anomalies. Of the indices examined, the ESI had the best performance with about 80% accuracy in comparison with observed soil moisture and streamflow drought conditions. Both the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA) AMSR-E soil moisture products predicted streamflow and soil water variability with squared correlation coefficients (R2) of 0.65 and 0.79, respectively. While the remote sensing Vegetation Health Index (VHI) tracked drought, its performance lagged the other indices. A regression analysis revealed that the joint use of the PDSI and appropriate remotely sensed drought indices, ESI and VUA, could improve predictions of streamflow and soil water variability.


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