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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book gives an insight into the evaluation of drought in Slovakia and provides an assessment of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) as a method suitable for an evaluation of drought in agricultural land. Dry seasons in the time series from 1960 to 2014 were determined according to the monthly Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI). The field research was carried out on 12 sites including western Slovakia, Prešov, Trnava and Nitra regions. Data collected from satellite imagery, climate data analyses and drought indices was analysed to determine the value of NDVI as an evaluation tool.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Assoc. Prof. Jaroslav Vido works as a researcher and teacher at the Department of Natural Environment of the Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, Slovakia. His research activities focus on comprehensive drought and water regime assessment at various levels of the ecological hierarchy. As a teacher is focused on aspects of Bioclimatology and Hydrology. Mr. Vido studied the problematics of the methodology of droughtmonitoring at the National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, U.S.
Prof. Bernard Šiška works as a professor at the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra. His professional activities are focused on environmental studies in Slovakia, especially in the agricultural landscape. He was a responsible person for greenhouse gases inventory from the agricultural sector as well as climate change impacts on the agricultural landscape in Slovakia since 1996. The results of his research were used in National Communication on Climate change in Slovakia. IPCC presented to Bernard Šiška contribution to IPCC Nobel peace prize winner 2007. Since 2011 is the president of the Slovak Bioclimatological Society at the Slovak Academy of Science.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Agricultural Drought in Slovakia: An Impact Assessment
Book Subtitle: NDVI and Satellite Based Data
Authors: Veronika Zuzulová, Jaroslav Vido, Bernard Šiška
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42061-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42060-4Published: 18 April 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-42061-1Published: 17 April 2020
Series ISSN: 2191-5547
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5555
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 90
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 69 illustrations in colour
Topics: Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Agriculture, Meteorology, Climate Change, World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions), Ecology