Next Generation Drought Index
The Deltares’ Next Generation Drought Index (D-NGDI) provides timely and relevant drought information for any specific sector at the local level in data scarce regions, allowing to detect drought and its sector-specific impacts and risks at early stages.
Impacts of droughts cause decreases in food and water supply, employment opportunities, and energy production. The D-NGDI tool can assist local (operational) water managers, NGO’s, agricultural sector, water supply companies, hydropower sector, shipping sector, and (re)insurance companies with timely drought information, both near real-time and forecasts, to inform their decision-making process in order to prevent big drought impacts
The Next Generation Drought Index tool uses a combination of big data, Earth Observation, hydrological models and data science techniques. It is presented as a user-friendly web-viewer that combines drought indices in combination with relevant impact information, enabling local water managers to take action before and during periods of drought. We provide this information for the whole globe but allow the users to extract locally relevant information. We make an impact by connecting with relevant users. For example, the NGDI was used recently in Uruguay by the Red Cross during a drought for the spatial and temporal analysis of vegetation health.
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