Table 6 List of VI.

From: A new strategy based on multi-source remote sensing data for improving the accuracy of land use/cover change classification

Vegetation index

Formula

References

Anthocyanin Reflectance Index 1 (ARI1)

\(ARI1 = \frac{1}{{\rho_{550} }} - \frac{1}{{\rho_{700} }}\)

Gitelson et al.29

Anthocyanin Reflectance Index 2 (ARI2)

\(ARI2 = \rho_{800} \left( {\frac{1}{{\rho_{550} }} - \frac{1}{{\rho_{700} }} } \right)\)

Gitelson et al.29

Atmospherically Resistant Vegetation Index (ARVI)

\(ARVI = \frac{{\rho_{860} - (\rho_{650} - \gamma \left( {\rho_{470} - \rho_{650} } \right)}}{{\rho_{860} + (\rho_{650} - \gamma \left( {\rho_{470} - \rho_{650} } \right)}}\)

Kaufman and Tanre30

Carotenoid Reflectance Index 1 (CRI1)

\(CRI1 = \frac{1}{{\rho_{510} }} - \frac{1}{{\rho_{550} }}\)

Gitelson et al.31

Carotenoid Reflectance Index 2 (CRI2)

\(CRI2 = \frac{1}{{\rho_{510} }} - \frac{1}{{\rho_{700} }}\)

Gitelson et al.31

Difference Vegetation Index (DVI)

\(DVI = \rho_{860} - \rho_{650}\)

Tucker32

Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)

\(EVI = \frac{{\rho_{860} - \rho_{650} }}{{\rho_{860} + 6*\rho_{650} - 7.5*\rho_{650} + 1}}\)

Huete33

Green Atmospherically Resistant Index (GARI)

\(GARI = \frac{{\rho_{860} - (\rho_{550} - \gamma \left( {\rho_{470} - \rho_{650} } \right)}}{{\rho_{860} + (\rho_{550} - \gamma \left( {\rho_{470} - \rho_{650} } \right)}}\)

Gitelson et al.34

Infrared Percentage Vegetation Index (IPVI)

\(IPVI = \frac{{\rho_{860} }}{{\rho_{860} - \rho_{650} }}\)

Crippen35

Leaf Area Index (LAI)

\(LAI = 3.618*EVI - 0.118\)

Boegh et al.36

Modified Chlorophyll Absorption Ratio Index (MCARI)

\(MCARI = \frac{{1.5[2.5\left( {\rho_{800} - \rho_{670} } \right) - 1.3\left( {\rho_{800} - \rho_{550} } \right)}}{{\sqrt {(2*\rho_{800} + 1)^{2} - \left( {6*\rho_{800} - 5*\sqrt {\rho_{670} } } \right) - 0.5} }}\)

Haboudane et al.37

Modified Simple Ratio (MSR)

\(MSR = \frac{{\frac{{\rho_{860} }}{{\rho_{650} }} - 1}}{{\sqrt {\frac{{\rho_{860} }}{{\rho_{650} }}} + 1}}\)

Chen38

Modified Triangular Vegetation Index (MTVI)

\(MTVI = 1.2[1.2\left( {\rho_{800} - \rho_{550} } \right) - 2.5\left( {\rho_{670} - \rho_{550} } \right)\)

Haboudane et al.37

Normalized Difference Mud Index (NDMI)

\(NDMI = \frac{{\rho_{795} - \rho_{990} }}{{\rho_{795} - \rho_{990} }}\)

Bernstein et al.39

Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)

\(NDVI = \frac{{\rho_{860} - \rho_{650} }}{{\rho_{860} + \rho_{650} }}\)

Pettorelli et al.40

Optimized Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index (OSAVI)

\(OSAVI = \frac{{1.5*\left( {\rho_{860} - \rho_{650} } \right)}}{{\rho_{860} + \rho_{650} + 0.16}}\)

Rondeaux et al.41

Photochemical Reflectance Index (PRI)

\(PRI = \frac{{\rho_{570} - \rho_{530} }}{{\rho_{570} + \rho_{530} }}\)

Gamon et al.42

Plant Senescence Reflectance Index (RSPI)

\(PSRI = \frac{{\rho_{680} - \rho_{500} }}{{\rho_{570} + \rho_{750} }}\)

Merzlyak et al.43

Red Edge Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (RENDVI)

\(RENDVI = \frac{{\rho_{750} - \rho_{705} }}{{\rho_{750} + \rho_{705} }}\)

Sims and Gamon44

Red Green Ratio Index (RGRI)

\(RGRI = \frac{{\mathop \sum \nolimits_{i = 600}^{699} R_{i} }}{{\mathop \sum \nolimits_{i = 500}^{599} R_{j} }}\)

Gamon and Surfus45

Renormalized Difference Vegetation Index (RDVI)

\(RDVI = \frac{{\rho_{860} - \rho_{650} }}{{\sqrt {\left( {\rho_{860} + \sqrt {\rho_{650} } } \right)} }}\)

Roujean and Breon46

Simple Ratio (SR)

\(SR = \frac{{\rho_{860} }}{{\rho_{650} }}\)

Birth and McVey47

Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index (SAVI)

\(SAVI = \frac{{1.5*\left( {\rho_{860} - \rho_{650} } \right)}}{{\rho_{860} + \rho_{650} + 0.5}}\)

Huete48

Transformed Chlorophyll Absorption Reflectance Index (TCARI)

\(TCARI = 3[\left( {\rho_{700} - \rho_{670} } \right) - 0.2\left( {\rho_{700} - \rho_{500} } \right)\left( {\frac{{\rho_{700} }}{{\rho_{670} }}} \right)\)

Haboudane et al.37

Triangular Vegetation Index (TVI)

\(TVI = 0.5[120\left( {\rho_{750} - \rho_{550} } \right) - 200\left( {\rho_{670} - \rho_{550} } \right)\)

Broge and Leblanc49

Vogelmann Red Edge Index 2 (VREI)

\(VREI2 = \frac{{\rho_{734} - \rho_{747} }}{{\rho_{715} - \rho_{726} }}\)

Vogelmann et al.50

Water Band Index (WBI)

\(WBI = \frac{{\rho_{970} }}{{\rho_{900} }}\)

Peñuelas et al.51