BSI: Bare Soil Index

In VegSpecIndex: Vegetation and Spectral Indices for Environmental Assessment

Bare Soil Index

Description

Bare Soil Index (BSI) is generally used to identify the differences between the agricultural and non-agricultural vegetation. Bare soil is indicator normalized index in the soil reflectance depending soil characteristics. (Chen et al., 2004).

Usage

BSI (SWIR, RED, NIR, BLUE)

Arguments

SWIR	Short-wave infrared spectral band
RED	Red spectral band
NIR	Near-infrared spectral band
BLUE	Blue spectral band

Value

Bare Soil Index

References

Chen, W., Liu, L., Zhang, C., Wang, J., Wang, J., & Pan, Y. (2004). Monitoring the seasonal bare soil areas in Beijing using multi-temporal TM images. Int. Geosci. Remote Sens. Symp., 5, 3379–3382.

Examples

BSI (0.148425, 0.061663, 0.14628, 0.034204)

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