Table 1 The computed vegetation indices.

From: UAV-based individual Chinese cabbage weight prediction using multi-temporal data

Vegetation Indices (VIs)

Formula

References

Camera

GRVI: Green and red ratio vegetation index

\(\frac{{{\text{green}} - {\text{red}}}}{{{\text{green}} + {\text{red}}}}\)

44

RGB and MS

MGRVI: Modified green–red vegetation index

\(\frac{{{\text{green}}^{2} - {\text{red}}^{2} }}{{{\text{green}}^{2} + {\text{red}}^{2} }}\)

45

RGB and MS

RGBVI: Red–green–blue vegetation index

\(\frac{{{\text{green}}^{2} - \left( {\text{blue*red}} \right)}}{{{\text{green}}^{2} + \left( {\text{blue*red}} \right)}}\)

45

RGB and MS

GNDVI: Green normalized difference vegetation index

\(\frac{{NIR - {\text{green}}}}{{NIR + {\text{green}}}}\)

46

MS

NDRE: Normalized difference red-edge index

\(\frac{{NIR - {\text{red}}\_{\text{edge}}}}{{NIR + {\text{red}}\_{\text{edge }}}}\)

47

MS

NDVI: Normalized difference vegetation index

\(\frac{{NIR - {\text{red}}}}{{NIR + {\text{red}}}}\)

48

MS

RECI: Red-edge chlorophyll index

\(\frac{NIR}{{{\text{red}}\_{\text{edge }}}} - 1\)

49

MS

SAVI: Soil-adjusted vegetation index

\(\frac{{NIR - {\text{red}}}}{{NIR + {\text{red}} + 0.5}}{*}1.5\)

50

MS

  1. Blue, green, red, near-infrared (NIR), and red-edge represent the image layer values.