What Rainfall Does Not Tell Us—Enhancing Financial Instruments with Satellite-Derived Soil Moisture and Evaporative Stress

Advanced parametric financial instruments, like weather index insurance (WII) and risk contingency credit (RCC), support disaster-risk management and reduction in the world’s most disaster-prone regions. Simultaneously, satellite data that are capable of cross-checking rainfall estimates,...

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Main Authors: Markus Enenkel, Carlos Farah, Christopher Hain, Andrew White, Martha Anderson, Liangzhi You, Wolfgang Wagner, Daniel Osgood
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-11-01
Series:Remote Sensing
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/10/11/1819