APPLICATION OF SATELLITE IMAGERY FOR DROUGHTS MONITORING IN LARGE AREA

Droughts have been an important factor in disaster management in Korea because she has been grouped into nations of lack of water. Satellite imagery can be applied to droughts monitoring because it can afford periodic data for large area for long time. This study aims to develop a method to analyze droughts in large area using satellite imagery. We estimated evapotranspiration in large area using NDVI data acquired from satellite imagery. For satellite imagery, we dealt with MODIS data operated by NASA. As the result of this study, we improved the usability of satellite imagery, especially in drought analysis.