Development of a Global Evaporative Stress Index Based on Thermal and Microwave LST towards Improved Monitoring of Agricultural Drought

Christopher Hain, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Earth Science Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, Martha Anderson, USDA-Agricultural Research Service Beltsville, Hydrology and Remote Sensing, Beltsville, United States, Jason Otkin, Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, Madison, United States, Thomas R Holmes, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and Feng Gao, USDA, ARS, Beltsville, United States