Table 3:
The Pearson’s correlation coefficient computed between agricultural based drought indices and meteorological based drought indices for different land cover types.
| Ethiopia | South Africa | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Land cover | SPI3 | SPI6 | SPI9 | SPI3 | SPI6 | SPI9 |
| Crop Land | 0.41 | 0.42 | 0.32 | 0.43 | 0.39 | 0.34 |
| Grass Land | 0.37 | 0.36 | 0.29 | 0.37 | 0.30 | 0.23 |
| Shrub Land | 0.25 | 0.21 | 0.16 | 0.37 | 0.28 | 0.20 |