Sensor: IRS-1C

IRS-1C

Basic information

Name	IRS-1C
Full Name	Indian Remote Sensing
Bands	5
Spectrum [nm]	500-1700
Spat.Res. [m]	5.8-70
Inclination	98.12
Orbit Height	817
Orbit Type	Sun Synchronous
Platform
Operator
Date of Launch	1995-00-00
status
Comment
Usable for Indices	yes
Description

Bands/Channels

Bands
zoom Bands

Nr.	Name	Start WL	Middle WL	End WL	Sp.Rg.	Spat. Res.
1	Green	520	555	590	70	23
2	Red	620	650	680	60	23
3	NIR	770	815	860	90	23
4	SWIRI	1550	1625	1700	150	70
5	Pan	500	625	750	250	5.8

Indices

Nr.	Name	Specific Formula	Calculated
1	Adjusted transformed soil-adjusted VI	$1.22 \frac{NIR - 1.22 Red - 0.03}{1.22 NIR + Red - 1.22 \cdot 0.03 + 0.08 (1 + {1.22}^{2})}$	Automatic
2	Aerosol free vegetation index 1600	$(NIR - 0.66 \frac{SWIRI}{NIR + 0.66 SWIRI})$	Automatic
3	Ashburn Vegetation Index	$2.0 NIR - Red$	Automatic
4	Atmospherically Resistant Vegetation Index 2	$-0.18 + 1.17 (\frac{NIR - Red}{NIR + Red})$	Automatic
5	Chlorophyll Green	${(\frac{NIR}{Green})}^{(-1)}$	Automatic
6	Chlorophyll Index Green	$\frac{NIR}{Green} - 1$	Automatic
7	Chlorophyll vegetation index	$NIR \frac{Red}{{Green}^{2}}$	Automatic
8	Corrected Transformed Vegetation Index	$\frac{(\frac{Red - Green}{Red + Green}) + 0, 5}{\| (\frac{Red - Green}{Red + Green}) + 0, 5 \|} \cdot \sqrt{\| ((\frac{Red - Green}{Red + Green})) + 0, 5 \|}$	Automatic
9	Difference 800/550	$NIR - Green$	Automatic
10	Difference 800/680	$NIR - Red$	Automatic
11	Difference 833/658	$NIR - Red$	Automatic
12	Difference NIR/Green	$NIR - Green$	Automatic
13	Differenced Vegetation Index MSS	$2.4 NIR - Red$	Automatic
14	Disease-Water Stress Index 5	$\frac{NIR - Green}{SWIRI + Red}$	Automatic
15	Enhanced Vegetation Index 2	$2.4 \frac{NIR - Red}{NIR + Red + 1}$	Automatic
16	Enhanced Vegetation Index 2	$2.5 \frac{NIR - Red}{NIR + 2.4 Red + 1}$	Automatic
17	Ferric iron, Fe3+	$\frac{Red}{Green}$	Automatic
18	Ferric Oxides	$\frac{SWIRI}{NIR}$	Automatic
19	Global Environment Monitoring Index	$(\frac{2 ({NIR}^{2} - {Red}^{2}) + 1.5 NIR + 0.5 Red}{NIR + Red + 0.5} (1 - 0.25 \frac{2 ({NIR}^{2} - {Red}^{2}) + 1.5 NIR + 0.5 Red}{NIR + Red + 0.5}) - \frac{Red - 0.125}{1 - Red})$	Automatic
20	Global Vegetation Moisture Index	$\frac{(NIR + 0.1) - (SWIRI + 0.02)}{(NIR + 0.1) + (SWIRI + 0.02)}$	Automatic
21	Gossan	$\frac{SWIRI}{Red}$	Automatic
22	Green Normalized Difference Vegetation Index	$\frac{NIR - Green}{NIR + Green}$	Automatic
23	Green Optimized Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index	$\frac{NIR - Green}{NIR + Green + Y}$	Automatic
24	Green Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index	$\frac{NIR - Green}{NIR + Green + L} (1 + L)$	Automatic
25	Green-Red NDVI	$\frac{NIR - (Green + Red)}{NIR + (Green + Red)}$	Automatic
26	Ideal vegetation index	$\frac{NIR - b}{a \cdot Red}$	Automatic
27	Infrared percentage vegetation index	$\frac{\frac{NIR}{NIR + Red}}{2} ((\frac{Red - Green}{Red + Green}) + 1)$	Automatic
28	Inverse reflectance 550	${Green}^{(-1)}$	Automatic
29	Leaf Water Content Index	$\frac{\log (1 - (NIR - MIDIR))}{- \log (1 - (NIR - MIDIR))}$	Automatic
30	Log Ratio	$\log (\frac{NIR}{Red})$	Automatic
31	Mid-infrared vegetation index	$\frac{NIR}{SWIRI}$	Automatic
32	Modified Chlorophyll Absorption in Reflectance Index 1	$1.2 (2.5 (NIR - Red) - 1.3 (NIR - Green))$	Automatic
33	Modified Chlorophyll Absorption in Reflectance Index 2	$(1.5 \frac{2.5 (NIR - Red) - 1.3 (NIR - Green)}{\sqrt{{(2 NIR + 1)}^{2} - (6 NIR - 5 \sqrt{Red}) - 0.5}})$	Automatic
34	Modified Simple Ratio 670,800	$\frac{\frac{NIR}{Red} - 1}{\sqrt{\frac{NIR}{Red} + 1}}$	Automatic
35	Modified Simple Ratio NIR/RED	$\frac{(\frac{NIR}{Red}) - 1}{\sqrt{(\frac{NIR}{Red}) + 1}}$	Automatic
36	Modified Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index	$\frac{2 NIR + 1 - \sqrt{{(2 NIR + 1)}^{2} - 8 (NIR - Red)}}{2}$	Automatic
37	Modified Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index hyper	$(0.5) ((2 NIR + 1) - \sqrt{{(2 NIR + 1)}^{2} - 8 (NIR - Red)})$	Automatic
38	Modified Triangular Vegetation Index 1	$1.2 (1.2 (NIR - Green) - 2.5 (Red - Green))$	Automatic
39	Modified Triangular Vegetation Index 2	$(1.5 \frac{1.2 (NIR - Green) - 2.5 (Red - Green)}{\sqrt{{(2 NIR + 1)}^{2} - (6 NIR - 5 \sqrt{Red}) - 0.5}})$	Automatic
40	Nonlinear vegetation index	$\frac{{NIR}^{2} - Red}{{NIR}^{2} + Red}$	Automatic
41	Norm G	$\frac{Green}{NIR + Red + Green}$	Automatic
42	Norm NIR	$\frac{NIR}{NIR + Red + Green}$	Automatic
43	Norm R	$\frac{Red}{NIR + Red + Green}$	Automatic
44	Normalized Difference 550/650	$\frac{Green - Red}{Green + Red}$	Automatic
45	Normalized Difference 774/677	$\frac{NIR - Red}{NIR + Red}$	Automatic
46	Normalized Difference 780/550	$\frac{NIR - Green}{NIR + Green}$	Automatic
47	Normalized Difference 782/666	$\frac{NIR - Red}{NIR + Red}$	Automatic
48	Normalized Difference 790/670	$\frac{NIR - Red}{NIR + Red}$	Automatic
49	Normalized Difference 800/1675	$\frac{NIR - SWIRI}{NIR + SWIRI}$	Automatic
50	Normalized Difference 800/550	$\frac{NIR - Green}{NIR + Green}$	Automatic
51	Normalized Difference 800/635	$\frac{NIR - Red}{NIR - Red}$	Automatic
52	Normalized Difference 800/650	$\frac{NIR - Red}{NIR + Red}$	Automatic
53	Normalized Difference 800/675	$\frac{NIR - Red}{NIR + Red}$	Automatic
54	Normalized Difference 800/680	$\frac{NIR - Red}{NIR + Red}$	Automatic
55	Normalized Difference 819/1600	$\frac{NIR - SWIRI}{NIR + SWIRI}$	Automatic
56	Normalized Difference 819/1649	$\frac{NIR - SWIRI}{NIR + SWIRI}$	Automatic
57	Normalized Difference 820/1600	$\frac{NIR - SWIRI}{NIR + SWIRI}$	Automatic
58	Normalized Difference 827/668	$\frac{NIR - Red}{NIR + Red}$	Automatic
59	Normalized Difference 833/1649	$\frac{NIR - SWIRI}{NIR + SWIRI}$	Automatic
60	Normalized Difference 833/658	$\frac{NIR - Red}{NIR + Red}$	Automatic
61	Normalized Difference 860/1640	$\frac{NIR - SWIRI}{NIR + SWIRI}$	Automatic
62	Normalized Difference Green/Red	$\frac{Green - Red}{Green + Red}$	Automatic
63	Normalized Difference MIR/NIR	$\frac{SWIRI - NIR}{SWIRI + NIR}$	Automatic
64	Normalized Difference NIR/Green	$\frac{NIR - Green}{NIR + Green}$	Automatic
65	Normalized Difference NIR/MIR	$\frac{NIR - SWIRI}{NIR + SWIRI}$	Automatic
66	Normalized Difference NIR/Red	$\frac{NIR - Red}{NIR + Red}$	Automatic
67	Normalized Difference NIR/SWIR	$\frac{NIR - SWIRI}{NIR + SWIRI}$	Automatic
68	Normalized Difference Red/Green	$\frac{Red - Green}{Red + Green}$	Automatic
69	Normalized Difference Vegetation Index C	$\frac{NIR - Red}{NIR + Red} (1 - \frac{SWIRI - SWIIRmin}{SWIRmax - SWIRmin})$	Automatic
70	Optimized Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index	$(1 + 0.16) \frac{NIR - Red}{NIR + Red + 0.16}$	Automatic
71	Perpendicular Vegetation Index	$(\frac{1}{\sqrt{a^{2} + 1}}) (NIR - ar - b)$	Automatic
72	Ratio Analysis of Reflectance Spectra A3	$\frac{\frac{Red}{NIR}}{\frac{r670}{r800}}$	Automatic
73	Ratio Analysis of Reflectance Spectra A4	$\frac{\frac{Red}{NIR}}{\frac{r680}{r800}}$	Automatic
74	RDVI	$\frac{NIR - Red}{{(NIR + Red)}^{0.5}}$	Automatic
75	RDVI2	$\frac{NIR - Red}{\sqrt{NIR + Red}}$	Automatic
76	Reduced Simple Ratio	$\frac{NIR}{Red} \cdot MIRmax - \frac{SWIRI}{MIRmax} - MIRmin$	Automatic
77	Reflectance at the inflexion point	$\frac{Red + NIR}{2}$	Automatic
78	Renormalized Difference Vegetation Index	$\frac{NIR - Red}{\sqrt{NIR + Red}}$	Automatic
79	SAVImir	$(NIR - SWIRI) \frac{1 + L}{NIR + SWIRI + L}$	Automatic
80	Simple Ratio 1599/819	$\frac{SWIRI}{NIR}$	Automatic
81	Simple Ratio 1600/820	$\frac{SWIRI}{NIR}$	Automatic
82	Simple Ratio 1660/550	$\frac{SWIRI}{Green}$	Automatic
83	Simple Ratio 1660/680	$\frac{SWIRI}{Red}$	Automatic
84	Simple Ratio 520/670	$\frac{Green}{Red}$	Automatic
85	Simple Ratio 550/670	$\frac{Green}{Red}$	Automatic
86	Simple Ratio 550/680	$\frac{Green}{Red}$	Automatic
87	Simple Ratio 550/800	$\frac{Green}{NIR}$	Automatic
88	Simple Ratio 554/677	$\frac{Green}{Red}$	Automatic
89	Simple Ratio 560/658	$\frac{Green}{Red}$	Automatic
90	Simple Ratio 672/550	$\frac{Red}{Green}$	Automatic
91	Simple Ratio 674/553	$\frac{Red}{Green}$	Automatic
92	Simple Ratio 675/555	$\frac{Red}{Green}$	Automatic
93	Simple Ratio 774/677	$\frac{NIR}{Red}$	Automatic
94	Simple Ratio 800/1660	$\frac{NIR}{SWIRI}$	Automatic
95	Simple Ratio 800/1675	$\frac{NIR}{SWIRI}$	Automatic
96	Simple Ratio 800/550	$\frac{NIR}{Green}$	Automatic
97	Simple Ratio 800/635	$\frac{NIR}{Red}$	Automatic
98	Simple Ratio 800/650	$\frac{NIR}{Red}$	Automatic
99	Simple Ratio 800/670	$\frac{NIR}{Red}$	Automatic
100	Simple Ratio 800/675	$\frac{NIR}{Red}$	Automatic
101	Simple Ratio 800/680	$\frac{NIR}{Red}$	Automatic
102	Simple Ratio 801/550	$\frac{NIR}{Green}$	Automatic
103	Simple Ratio 801/670	$\frac{NIR}{Red}$	Automatic
104	Simple Ratio 810/560	$\frac{NIR}{Green}$	Automatic
105	Simple Ratio 833/1649	$\frac{NIR}{SWIRI}$	Automatic
106	Simple Ratio 833/658	$\frac{NIR}{Red}$	Automatic
107	Simple Ratio 860/550	$\frac{NIR}{Green}$	Automatic
108	Simple Ratio MIR/NIR	$\frac{SWIRI}{NIR}$	Automatic
109	Simple Ratio MIR/Red	$\frac{SWIRI}{Red}$	Automatic
110	Simple Ratio NIR/G	$\frac{NIR}{Green}$	Automatic
111	Simple Ratio NIR/MIR	$\frac{NIR}{SWIRI}$	Automatic
112	Simple Ratio NIR/RED	$\frac{NIR}{Red}$	Automatic
113	Simple Ratio Red/Green	$\frac{Red}{Green}$	Automatic
114	Simple Ratio Red/NIR	$\frac{Red}{NIR}$	Automatic
115	Simple Ratio SWIRI/NIR	$\frac{SWIRI}{NIR}$	Automatic
116	Single Band 1580	$SWIRI$	Automatic
117	Single Band 1690	$SWIRI$	Automatic
118	Single Band 550	$Green$	Automatic
119	Single Band 555	$Green$	Automatic
120	Single Band 635	$Red$	Automatic
121	Single Band 640	$Red$	Automatic
122	Single Band 655	$Red$	Automatic
123	Single Band 660	$Red$	Automatic
124	Single Band 670	$Red$	Automatic
125	Single Band 675	$Red$	Automatic
126	Single Band 680	$Red$	Automatic
127	Single Band 801	$NIR$	Automatic
128	Single Band 850	$NIR$	Automatic
129	Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index	$\frac{NIR - Red}{NIR + Red + L} (1 + L)$	Automatic
130	Soil and Atmospherically Resistant Vegetation Index	$(1 + L) \frac{NIR - (Rr - y (RB - Rr))}{NIR + - (Rr - y (RB - Rr)) + L}$	Automatic
131	Soil and Atmospherically Resistant Vegetation Index 3	$(1 + 0, 5) \frac{NIR - Red}{NIR + Red + 0, 5}$	Automatic
132	Soil Background Line	$NIR - 2.4 Red$	Automatic
133	Soil Composition Index	$\frac{SWIRI - NIR}{SWIRI + NIR}$	Automatic
134	Soil-adjusted vegetation index 2	$\frac{NIR}{Red + \frac{b}{a}}$	Automatic
135	Specific Leaf Area Vegetation Index	$\frac{NIR}{Red + SWIRI}$	Automatic
136	Spectral Polygon Vegetation Index	$0.4 (3.7 (NIR - Red) - 1.2 \| Green - Red \|)$	Automatic
137	SQRT(IR/R)	$\sqrt{\frac{NIR}{Red}}$	Automatic
138	Transformed NDVI	$\sqrt{\frac{NIR - Red}{NIR + Red} + 0.5}$	Automatic
139	Transformed Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index	$\frac{B (NIR - B \cdot Red - A)}{Red + B (NIR - A) + X (1 + B^{2})}$	Automatic
140	Transformed Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index 2	$\frac{a \cdot NIR - a \cdot Red - b}{Red + a \cdot NIR - a \cdot b}$	Automatic
141	Transformed Vegetation Index	$\sqrt{((\frac{Red - Green}{Red + Green})) + 0, 5}$	Automatic
142	Weighted Difference Vegetation Index	$NIR - a \cdot Red$	Automatic
143	Wide Dynamic Range Vegetation Index	$\frac{0.1 NIR - Red}{0.1 NIR + Red}$	Automatic

Applications

Nr.	Name
1	Agriculture
2	Agriculture - Crop parameters
3	Agriculture - Crop yield
4	Agriculture - Land management
5	Agriculture - Precision Crop Management
6	Fire
7	Forestry
8	Forestry - Boreal
9	Geology
10	Metal
11	Metal - Heavy metal contamination
12	Metal - Iron
13	Soil
14	Vegetation
15	Vegetation - Biomass
16	Vegetation - Cellulose
17	Vegetation - Chlorophyll
18	Vegetation - LAI
19	Vegetation - Lignin
20	Vegetation - Nitrogen content
21	Vegetation - PAR
22	Vegetation - Protein
23	Vegetation - Starch
24	Vegetation - Stress
25	Vegetation - Sugar
26	Vegetation - Vitality
27	Vegetation - Water
28	Vegetation - Water stress

References

Nr.	Author/Title	Year
1	Bastiaanssen, Wim G. M.; Molden, David J.; Makin, Ian W. - Remote sensing for irrigated agriculture: examples from research and possible applications	2000
2	Chandrasekhar, M. G.; Jayaraman, V.; Rao, M. - Indian remote sensing satellites: Planned missions and future applications	1996
3	Choubey, V. K.; Choubey, R. - Spectral reflectance, growth and chlorophyll relationships for rice crop in a semi-arid region of India	1999
4	Karnieli, A.; Kaufman, Y. J.; Remer, L.; Wald, A. - AFRI - aerosol free vegetation index	2001
5	Metternicht, G. - Vegetation indices derived from high-resolution airborne videography for precision crop management	2003
6	Moran, M. S.; Inoue, Y.; Barnes, E. M. - Opportunities and limitations for image-based remote sensing in precision crop management	1997

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Visualisation of Indices

Sensor:

Indices:

Adjusted transformed soil-adjusted VI

Aerosol free vegetation index 1600

Ashburn Vegetation Index

Atmospherically Resistant Vegetation Index 2

Chlorophyll Green

Chlorophyll Index Green

Chlorophyll vegetation index

Corrected Transformed Vegetation Index

Difference 800/550

Difference 800/680

Difference 833/658

Difference NIR/Green

Differenced Vegetation Index MSS

Disease-Water Stress Index 5

Enhanced Vegetation Index 2

Ferric iron, Fe3+

Ferric Oxides

Global Environment Monitoring Index

Global Vegetation Moisture Index

Gossan

Green Normalized Difference Vegetation Index

Green Optimized Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index

Green Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index

Green-Red NDVI

Ideal vegetation index

Infrared percentage vegetation index

Inverse reflectance 550

Leaf Water Content Index

Log Ratio

Mid-infrared vegetation index

Modified Chlorophyll Absorption in Reflectance Index 1

Modified Chlorophyll Absorption in Reflectance Index 2

Modified Simple Ratio 670,800

Modified Simple Ratio NIR/RED

Modified Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index

Modified Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index hyper

Modified Triangular Vegetation Index 1

Modified Triangular Vegetation Index 2

Nonlinear vegetation index

Norm G

Norm NIR

Norm R

Normalized Difference 550/650

Normalized Difference 774/677

Normalized Difference 780/550

Normalized Difference 782/666

Normalized Difference 790/670

Normalized Difference 800/1675

Normalized Difference 800/550

Normalized Difference 800/635

Normalized Difference 800/650

Normalized Difference 800/675

Normalized Difference 800/680

Normalized Difference 819/1600

Normalized Difference 819/1649

Normalized Difference 820/1600

Normalized Difference 827/668

Normalized Difference 833/1649

Normalized Difference 833/658

Normalized Difference 860/1640

Normalized Difference Green/Red

Normalized Difference MIR/NIR

Normalized Difference NIR/Green

Normalized Difference NIR/MIR

Normalized Difference NIR/Red

Normalized Difference NIR/SWIR

Normalized Difference Red/Green

Normalized Difference Vegetation Index C

Optimized Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index

Perpendicular Vegetation Index

Ratio Analysis of Reflectance Spectra A3

Ratio Analysis of Reflectance Spectra A4

RDVI

RDVI2

Reduced Simple Ratio

Reflectance at the inflexion point

Renormalized Difference Vegetation Index

SAVImir

Simple Ratio 1599/819

Simple Ratio 1600/820

Simple Ratio 1660/550

Simple Ratio 1660/680

Simple Ratio 520/670

Simple Ratio 550/670

Simple Ratio 550/680

Simple Ratio 550/800

Simple Ratio 554/677

Simple Ratio 560/658

Simple Ratio 672/550

Simple Ratio 674/553

Simple Ratio 675/555

Simple Ratio 774/677

Simple Ratio 800/1660

Simple Ratio 800/1675

Simple Ratio 800/550

Simple Ratio 800/635

Simple Ratio 800/650

Simple Ratio 800/670

Simple Ratio 800/675

Simple Ratio 800/680

Simple Ratio 801/550

Simple Ratio 801/670

Simple Ratio 810/560

Simple Ratio 833/1649

Simple Ratio 833/658

Simple Ratio 860/550

Simple Ratio MIR/NIR

Simple Ratio MIR/Red

Simple Ratio NIR/G

Simple Ratio NIR/MIR

Simple Ratio NIR/RED

Simple Ratio Red/Green

Simple Ratio Red/NIR

Simple Ratio SWIRI/NIR

Single Band 1580

Single Band 1690

Single Band 550

Single Band 555

Single Band 635

Single Band 640

Single Band 655

Single Band 660

Single Band 670

Single Band 675

Single Band 680

Single Band 801

Single Band 850

Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index

Soil and Atmospherically Resistant Vegetation Index

Soil and Atmospherically Resistant Vegetation Index 3

Soil Background Line

Soil Composition Index

Soil-adjusted vegetation index 2

Specific Leaf Area Vegetation Index

Spectral Polygon Vegetation Index

SQRT(IR/R)

Transformed NDVI

Transformed Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index

Transformed Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index 2

Transformed Vegetation Index

Weighted Difference Vegetation Index

Wide Dynamic Range Vegetation Index

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