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Drought Characteristics In The Lower Mekong River Basin And Relationship To Land Cover Change, Heejun Park
Drought Characteristics In The Lower Mekong River Basin And Relationship To Land Cover Change, Heejun Park
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Drought can have devastating effects on regional water resources and agriculture, with an estimated US$96 billions of damages globally between 2005 and 2015. In the Lower Mekong Basin, the impacts of drought have been a major concern for local stakeholders as the region is the largest rice-producing area in the world. Few studies of long-term drought in the region have directly assessed the effects of land cover changes on both agricultural and hydrological drought. We used a suite of remote sensing data to assess drought characteristics in five countries of this region (Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar) where traditional in-situ …