1Velammal Engineering College, Department of Civil Engineering, Surapet, Chennai, 600066, email: sampatvec@gmail.com
2Associate Professor, College of Engineering, Centre for Water Resources, Anna University, Chennai, 600025, email: nganu@annauniv.edu
Online published on 11 April, 2017.
Agricultural drought is considered to be one of the man's worst natural enemy. Its beginning is subtle, its progress is insidious and its effect can be devastating. In a country like India, drought is considered to be a major factor of uncertainty due to vagarious of monsoon. Once there was not effective drought assessment and monitoring system, but now remote sensing plays an important role and the facilities like Geographic Information System(GIS) facilitate effective drought assessment and monitoring
Drought, Remote Sensing, GIS, Vegetative Index(VI), Satellite
