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Comparisons among a new soil index and other two- and four-dimensional vegetation indices

Author:
Wiegand, C. L.
Published:
Sep 1, 1982.
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1 electronic document
Additional Creators:
Richardson, A. J.
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Summary:
The 2-D difference vegetation index (DVI) and perpendicular vegetation index (PVI), and the 4-D green vegetation index (GVI) are compared in LANDSAT MSS data from grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor, L. Moench) fields for the years 1973 to 1977. PVI and DVI were more closely related to LAI than was GVI. A new 2-D soil line index (SLI), the vector distance from the soil line origin to the point of intersection of PVI with the soil line, is defined and compared with the 4-D soil brightness index, SBI. SLI (based on MSS and MSS7) and SL16 (based on MSS 5 and MSS 6) were smaller in magnitude than SBI but contained similar information about the soil background. These findings indicate that vegetation and soil indices calculated from the single visible and reflective infrared band sensor systems, such as the AVHRR of the TIROS-N polar orbiting series of satellites, will be meaningful for synoptic monitoring of renewable vegetation.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
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Document ID: 19830006296.
Accession ID: 83N14567.
NAS 1.26:169592.
EW-U2-04350.
E83-10058.
JSC-18562.
NASA-CR-169592.
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