“…Over the last two decades, several drought indices have been developed in fields such as meteorology, hydrology, agriculture, remote sensing and water resource management [2,[12][13][14]. These include the Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) [15], the Standardised Precipitation Index (SPI) [15,16], and the Standardised Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) [15][16][17], calculated from meteorological data from ground stations. In addition, the Temperature Vegetation Dryness Index (TVDI) [12,18] is based on an empirical parameterisation of the spacing between land surface temperature (LST) and Vegetation Indices (VIs) such as the Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) [19], the Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI2) [20] and the Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index (SAVI) [21], affected by water stress due to the relationship between canopy temperature, soil moisture and transpiration.…”