Listening Sessions on Drought Monitoring Tools Underway

The National Drought Mitigation Center’s most recent listening sessions on drought monitoring tools were June 21, 2007, in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Presentations focused on the Vegetation Drought Response Index (VegDRI), the Vegetation Outlook (VegOut), the Drought Impact Reporter, the Drought Monitor, Drought Atlas and Drought Decision Support System, and on Greenleaf and other innovative technology being applied by our partner, the Computer Sciences & Engineering Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Development of the tools is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency.

Stay tuned for information about workshops later this year in North Dakota and Texas.

If you’re interested in helping us fine-tune or ground truth products to make them as accurate and useful as possible, you can:

• Access recent presentations on-line, and send any comments to the contact people listed within them, or to droughtscape@unl.edu
• Contact Meghan Sittler, NDMC Research & Outreach Specialist (402-472-2712, msittler2@unl.edu, and let us know more about your interest.
• Subscribe to DroughtScape, if you haven’t already!

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