Water Resources Research Act Program

Details for Project ID 2004AL26B

The Evaluation of an Approach to Estimate Regional Scale Surface Moisture as an Indicator of Drought for Alabama Using NASA's MODIS Data

Institute: Alabama
Year Established: 2004 Start Date: 2004-03-01 End Date: 2005-02-28
Total Federal Funds: $23,348 Total Non-Federal Funds: $46,944

Principal Investigators: Luke Marzen, Jean-Marie Wersinger

Project Summary: In this project, surface moisture conditions will be estimated by calculating the ratio between NDVI and LST. Although our focus is to use these measurements as an indication of drought, these measurements may also be an effective indicator of other potential disasters such as flooding. The overall goal of this project will be to evaluate methods to use remotely sensed data to estimate surface moisture conditions as an indication of drought.