Indices

Following indices / bands are available in the TSA submodule:

Index

Name

Formula

Reference

BLUE

see Sensor Bands

GREEN

RED

RE1

RE2

RE3

BNIR

NIR

SWIR1

SWIR2

VV

VH

NDVI

Normalized Difference Vegetation Index

(NIR - RED) / (NIR + RED)

Tucker 1979

EVI

Enhanced Vegetation Index

G * ((NIR - RED) / (NIR + C1 * RED – C2 * BLUE + L)) with G = 2.5, L = 1, C1 = 6, C2 = 7.5

Huete et al. 2002

NBR

Normalized Burn Ratio

(NIR - SWIR2) / (NIR + SWIR2)

Key & Benson 2005

NDTI

Normalized Difference Tillage Index

(SWIR1 - SWIR2) / (SWIR1 + SWIR2)

Van Deventer et al. 1997

ARVI

Atmospherically Resistant Vegetation Index

(NIR - RB) / (NIR + RB) with RB = RED - (BLUE - RED)

Kaufman & Tanré 1992

SAVI

Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index

(NIR - RED) / (NIR + RED + L) * (1 + L) with L = 0.5

Huete 1988

SARVI

Soil adj. and Atm. Resistant Veg. Index

(NIR - RB) / (NIR + RB + L) * (1 + L) with RB = RED - (BLUE - RED) with L = 0.5

Kaufman & Tanré 1992

TC-BRIGHT

Tasseled Cap Brightness

0.2043*BLUE + 0.4158*GREEN + 0.5524*RED + 0.5741*NIR + 0.3124*SWIR1 + 0.2303*SWIR2

Crist 1985

TC-GREEN

Tasseled Cap Greeness

-0.1603*BLUE - 0.2819*GREEN - 0.4934*RED + 0.7940*NIR - 0.0002*SWIR1 - 0.1446*SWIR2

Crist 1985

TC-WET

Tasseled Cap Wetness

0.0315*BLUE + 0.2021*GREEN + 0.3102*RED + 0.1594*NIR - 0.6806*SWIR1 - 0.6109*SWIR2

Crist 1985

TC-DI

Tasseled Cap Disturbance Index

TC-BRIGHT - (TC-GREEN + TC-WET) no rescaling applied (as opposed to Healey et al. 1995)

Healey et al. 1995

NDBI

Normalized Difference Built-Up Index

(SWIR1 - NIR) / (SWIR1 + NIR)

Zha et al. 2003

NDWI

Normalized Difference Water Index

(GREEN - NIR) / (GREEN + NIR)

McFeeters 1996

MNDWI

Modified Normalized Difference Water Index

(GREEN - SWIR1) / (GREEN + SWIR1)

Xu, H. 2006

NDMI

Normalized Difference Moisture Index

(NIR - SWIR1) / (NIR + SWIR1)

Gao 1996

NDSI

Normalized Difference Snow Index

(GREEN - SWIR1) / (GREEN + SWIR1)

Hall et al. 1995

SMA

Spectral Mixture Analysis

BOA = F * endmember + E Fraction F is retrieved using least-squares optimization from a couple of endmembers and BOA reflectance, E is model error

Smith et al. 1990

kNDVI

Kernel NDVI

(1 - k) / (1 + k) with k = exp( -(NIR - RED)^2 / (2 * sigma^2) ) with sigma = 0.5 * (NIR + RED)

Camps-Valls et al. 2021

NDRE1

Normalized Difference Red Edge Index 1

(REDEDGE2 - REDEDGE1) / (REDEDGE2 + REDEDGE1)

Gitelson & Merzlyak 1994

NDRE2

Normalized Difference Red Edge Index 2

(REDEDGE3 - REDEDGE1) / (REDEDGE3 + REDEDGE1)

Barnes et al. 2000

CIre

Chlorophyll Index red-edge

(REDEDGE3 / REDEDGE1) - 1

Gitelson et al. 2003

NDVIre1

Normalized Difference Vegetation Index red edge 1

(BNIR - REDEDGE1) / (BNIR + REDEDGE1)

Gitelson & Merzlyak 1994

NDVIre2

Normalized Difference Vegetation Index red edge 2

(BNIR - REDEDGE2) / (BNIR + REDEDGE2)

Fernandez-Manso et al. 2016

NDVIre3

Normalized Difference Vegetation Index red edge 3

(BNIR - REDEDGE3) / (BNIR + REDEDGE3)

Fernandez-Manso et al. 2016

NDVIre1n

Normalized Difference Vegetation Index red edge 1 narrow

(NIR - REDEDGE1) / (NIR + REDEDGE1)

Fernandez-Manso et al. 2016

NDVIre2n

Normalized Difference Vegetation Index red edge 2 narrow

(NIR - REDEDGE2) / (NIR + REDEDGE2)

Fernandez-Manso et al. 2016

NDVIre3n

Normalized Difference Vegetation Index red edge 3 narrow

(NIR - REDEDGE3) / (NIR + REDEDGE3)

Fernandez-Manso et al. 2016

MSRre

Modified Simple Ratio red edge

((BNIR / REDEDGE1) - 1) / sqrt((BNIR / REDEDGE1) + 1)

Chen 1996

MSRren

Modified Simple Ratio red edge narrow

((NIR / REDEDGE1) - 1) / sqrt((NIR / REDEDGE1) + 1)

Fernandez-Manso et al. 2016

CCI

chlorophyll/carotenoid index

(GREEN - RED) / (GREEN +RED)

Gamon et al. 2016