ARVI: Atmospherically Resistant Vegetation Index

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Atmospherically Resistant Vegetation Index

Description

The advantage of ARVI is that it reduces the role of the atmospheric scattering that affects the images. Such effects are caused by the aerosols of both natural origin (e.g., rain and fog) and urban air pollution (e.g., dust or smog). Initially proposed and developed for the assessment of vegetation from the Earth Observing System (EOS), Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectro-radiometer (MODIS) sensor, ARVI can also be applied for the Landsat OLI/TIRS sensors since it contains necessary spectral bands: Blue, Red and Green (Kaufman & Tanre, 1992; Lemenkova & Debeir, 2023).

Usage

ARVI (BLUE, RED, GREEN)

Arguments

BLUE	Blue spectral band
RED	Red spectral band
GREEN	Green spectral band

Value

Atmospherically Resistant Vegetation Index

References

Rikimaru, A., Roy, P. S., & Miyatake, S. (2002). Tropical forest cover density mapping. Tropical Ecology, 43(1), 39–47.

Examples

ARVI(0.14628, 0.061663, 0.034204)

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