AVI: AVI - Advanced Vegetation Index

Description Usage Arguments Value References Examples

Description

AVI is similar to NDVI and it is used in vegetation studies to monitor crop and forest variations over time. Through the multi-temporal combination of the AVI and the NDVI, users can discriminate different types of vegetation and extract phenology characteristics.

Usage

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AVI(R, NIR)

Arguments

R

A raster layer object with the reflectance values for the Red band.

NIR

A raster layer object with the reflectance values for the Near Infrared band.

Value

AVI - Advanced Vegetation Index

References

Rikimaru et al., 2002. Tropical forest cover density mapping. Tropical Ecology, 43, 39-47. https://www.geo.university/pages/spectral-indices-with-multispectral-satellite-data.

Examples

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library(raster)
path_files <- system.file("extdata/", package="nightmares")
bands <- stack(list.files(path_files,".tif", full.names=TRUE))
x <- ref_oli(bands, sun.elev= 67.97)
AVI(x[[4]], x[[5]])

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