Famine Early Warning Systems Network - Central Asia

This platform can be used to obtain information of meteorological, hydrological, and Mapping agricultural drought hazards on a near real-time basis for Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgzstan.

Date (Publication): 2019

Originator

USGS - Contact form in https://earlywarning.usgs.gov/fews/contact ( )

Author

- Funk et al. (2015) Scientific Data; Xie and Arkin (1997) Verdin and Klaver (2002) Hydrologic Processes; Xie and Arkin (1997) BAMS; Senay et al. (2011) Agricultural Water Management

Maintenance and update frequency: Daily

Keywords

Type: Platform
Type of Drought: Meteorological, Agricultural, Hydrological Drought
Application: Mapping meteorological drought hazard, Mapping hydrological drought hazard, Mapping agricultural drought hazard
Extent: Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgzstan

Keywords

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

Afghanistan
Kazakhstan
Pakistan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Kyrgyzstan

Spatial representation type: Grid

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Farming
Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Supplemental Information: Resolution:

* Monthly

* Aggregation period: N/A

* Spatial scale: 500m to 5 km

OnLine resource: https://earlywarning.usgs.gov/fews/search/Asia/Central20%Asia ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Statement: Data requirements to use: None;

Data used: Geostationary IR, MODIS IR/visible;

Data format: GeoTIFF;

Data access: FTP, HTTP, Web Mapping Servers;

Concise description:

Routinely updated, high resolution

Indices included:

NOAA Rainfall Estimate, SSEBop Evapotranspiration, eMODIS NDVI