Table 1 The analysis indexes on vegetation satellite imagery and the formulas used in the study.

From: An analysis of the potential for military zones to be used as green spaces in the Ankara metropolitan area (Türkiye)

Name of the Index

Formula

Reference

Normalized difference vegetation index

NDVI

\({NDVI}=\frac{\left({P}_{{NIR}}-{P}_{{red}}\right)}{\left({P}_{{NIR}}+{P}_{{red}}\right)}\)

Myneni et al. 1995

Normalized difference water index

NDMI

\({NDMI}=\frac{\left({P}_{{NIR}}-{P}_{{SWIR}1}\right)}{\left({P}_{{NIR}}+{P}_{{SWIR}1}\right)}\)

McDonald et al. 1998

Normalized difference built-up index

NDBI

\({NDBI}=\frac{{P}_{{SWIR}1}-{P}_{{NIR}}}{{P}_{{SWIR}1}+{P}_{{NIR}}}\)

Zha et al. 2003

Modified impervious surface index

NISI

\({NISI}=\frac{\left({P}_{{blue}}+{P}_{{grem}}\,+{P}_{{red}}\right)-{P}_{{NIR}}}{\left({P}_{{blue}}+{P}_{{grem}}\,+{P}_{{red}}\right)-{P}_{{NIR}}}\)

Su et al. 2022