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	$\frac{860nm - 1240nm}{860nm + 1240nm}$
Variables
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Wavelengths	860,1240
Source	Original formula
Description

Visualisation of required spectral range

Bands
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Sensors

Nr.	Name	Spectral Range	Bands	Specific Formula	Calculated	Comment
1	AISA	400-2506.7	498	$\frac{200 - 289}{200 + 289}$	Automatic
2	ALI	433-2350	10	$\frac{MS___4' - MS___5'}{MS___4' + MS___5'}$	Automatic
3	ARIES-1	400-2587	105	$\frac{25 - 41}{25 + 41}$	Automatic
4	AVIRIS	355.15-2515	224	$\frac{54 - 94}{54 + 94}$	Automatic
5	EnMap	420-2450	244	$\frac{68 - 123}{68 + 123}$	Automatic
6	GLI	375-12500	36	$\frac{18 - 26}{18 + 26}$	Automatic
7	HYDICE	400-2500	210	$\frac{46 - 84}{46 + 84}$	Automatic
8	HyMap	429-2493.8	126	$\frac{29 - 55}{29 + 55}$	Automatic
9	Hyperion	349.896-2582.28	242	$\frac{B72 - B109}{B72 + B109}$	Automatic
10	MIPAS	685-2410	5	$\frac{NIR1 - NIR3}{NIR1 + NIR3}$	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	$\frac{41 - 79}{41 + 79}$	Automatic
14	Resource21	450-1650	6	$\frac{4 - 6}{4 + 6}$	Automatic
15	SCIAMACHY	240-2380	15	$\frac{PMD4_NIR - NIR2}{PMD4_NIR + NIR2}$	Automatic
16	VIIRS	412-13350	22	$\frac{DNB - M8}{DNB + M8}$	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, St?phane; 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	Galv?o, L?nio Soares; Formaggio, Ant?nio 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-Cant?, 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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