Extracting and overlaping geospatial informations from remote sensing to mapping genegal drought of Ninh Thuan province

Abstract

Drought is one of the natural phenomena that seriously affects to society in general as well as the lives of people in particular. Therefore, determining early drought is necessary. Remote sensing and GIS technology with extracting and overlaping tools which can assess the extent of drought from geospatial informations in a wide area. Experimental area is Ninh Thuan province, where drought often occur. Five indexes (TCI, VCI, SAVI, WWSVI, TVDI) are extracted from Landsat 8. The weights according to the level of influence is determine by Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). Results shows current drought in five levels: no drought; low; medium; high and very high, then compared with the drought warning system in the South-central region. The areas of Ninh Phuoc, Ninh Son and Phan Rang are higher drought phenomena at the time of dry season (accounting for about 60% of the total provincial area).