Index: Normalized Difference 860/1240 Normalized Difference Water Index

Normalized Difference 860/1240 Normalized Difference Water Index

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Basic information

Name	Normalized Difference 860/1240 Normalized Difference Water Index
Abbreviation	NDWI
Formula	$\frac{\mathrm{860nm}-\mathrm{1240nm}}{\mathrm{860nm}+\mathrm{1240nm}}$
Variables
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Wavelengths	860,1240
Source	Original formula
Description

Visualisation of required spectral range

Sensors

Nr.	Name	Spectral Range	Bands	Specific Formula	Calculated	Comment
1	AISA	400-2506.7	498	$\frac{\mathrm{200}-\mathrm{289}}{\mathrm{200}+\mathrm{289}}$	Automatic
2	ALI	433-2350	10	$\frac{\mathrm{MS\_\_\_4\text{'}}-\mathrm{MS\_\_\_5\text{'}}}{\mathrm{MS\_\_\_4\text{'}}+\mathrm{MS\_\_\_5\text{'}}}$	Automatic
3	ARIES-1	400-2587	105	$\frac{\mathrm{25}-\mathrm{41}}{\mathrm{25}+\mathrm{41}}$	Automatic
4	AVIRIS	355.15-2515	224	$\frac{\mathrm{54}-\mathrm{94}}{\mathrm{54}+\mathrm{94}}$	Automatic
5	EnMap	420-2450	244	$\frac{\mathrm{68}-\mathrm{123}}{\mathrm{68}+\mathrm{123}}$	Automatic
6	GLI	375-12500	36	$\frac{\mathrm{18}-\mathrm{26}}{\mathrm{18}+\mathrm{26}}$	Automatic
7	HYDICE	400-2500	210	$\frac{\mathrm{46}-\mathrm{84}}{\mathrm{46}+\mathrm{84}}$	Automatic
8	HyMap	429-2493.8	126	$\frac{\mathrm{29}-\mathrm{55}}{\mathrm{29}+\mathrm{55}}$	Automatic
9	Hyperion	349.896-2582.28	242	$\frac{\mathrm{B72}-\mathrm{B109}}{\mathrm{B72}+\mathrm{B109}}$	Automatic
10	MIPAS	685-2410	5	$\frac{\mathrm{NIR1}-\mathrm{NIR3}}{\mathrm{NIR1}+\mathrm{NIR3}}$	Automatic
11	MMR	450-2300	7	$\frac{4-5}{4+5}$	Automatic
12	MODIS	405-14385	36	$\frac{2-5}{2+5}$	Automatic
13	Orbview-4	450-2450	200	$\frac{\mathrm{41}-\mathrm{79}}{\mathrm{41}+\mathrm{79}}$	Automatic
14	Resource21	450-1650	6	$\frac{4-6}{4+6}$	Automatic
15	SCIAMACHY	240-2380	15	$\frac{\mathrm{PMD4\_NIR}-\mathrm{NIR2}}{\mathrm{PMD4\_NIR}+\mathrm{NIR2}}$	Automatic
16	VIIRS	412-13350	22	$\frac{\mathrm{DNB}-\mathrm{M8}}{\mathrm{DNB}+\mathrm{M8}}$	Automatic

Applications

Nr.	Name	Comment
1	Vegetation
2	Vegetation - Water

References

Nr.	Author/Title	Year	Comment
1	Apan, Armando; Held, Alex; Phinn, Stuart; Markley, John - Formulation and assessment of narrow-band vegetation indices from EO-1 hyperion imagery for discriminating sugarcane disease	2003
2	Ceccato, Pietro; Gobron, Nadine; Flasse, Stéphane; Pinty, Bernard; Tarantola, Stefano - Designing a spectral index to estimate vegetation water content from remote sensing data: Part 1: Theoretical approach	2002
3	Datt, B.; McVicar, T.R.; Van Niel, T.G.; Jupp, D.L.B.; Pearlman, J.S. - Preprocessing EO-1 Hyperion hyperpsectral data to support the application of agricultural indexes	2003
4	Datt, Bisun - Remote Sensing of Water Content in Eucalyptus Leaves	1999
5	Galvão, Lênio Soares; Formaggio, Antônio Roberto; Tisot, Daniela Arnold - Discrimination of sugarcane varieties in Southeastern Brazil with EO-1 Hyperion data	2005
6	Gao, Bo-cai - NDWI—A normalized difference water index for remote sensing of vegetation liquid water from space	1996
7	Pu, Ruiliang; Gong, Peng; Yu, Qian - Comparative Analysis of EO-1 ALI and Hyperion, and Landsat ETM+ Data for Mapping Forest Crown Closure and Leaf Area Index	2008
8	Zarco-Tejada P.J.; Sepulcre-Cantó, G. - REMOTE SENSING OF VEGETATION BIOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS FOR DETECTING STRESS CONDITION AND LAND COVER CHANGES	2007
9	Zarco-Tejada, P. J.; Rueda, C. A.; Ustin, S. L. - Water content estimation in vegetation with MODIS reflectance data and model inversion methods	2003

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Visualisation of Sensor-Bands

Index:

Sensors:

AISA

ALI

ARIES-1

AVIRIS

EnMap

GLI

HYDICE

HyMap

Hyperion

MIPAS

MMR

MODIS

Orbview-4

Resource21

SCIAMACHY

VIIRS

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