[Notes_IRSTEA]bibl.; fig. [Departement_IRSTEA]GTNational audienceIn the face of this year's exceptional drought over France, compensations are to be set up for farmers whose productions have been damaged. Precise informations over striken areas must be provided for deciding the amount and place of compensations. Drought must not be evaluated only as climatic phenomenon. Its impact over production must also be measured cartographically. Information provided by satellite remote sensing is invaluable for determining areas which suffer from drought and thus for compensating losses in all fairness. The evolution of vegetation indexes over maps derived from NOAA-AVHRR satellite imagery shows the state of vegetation all over France at various date...