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Table 6 Moisture indices extracted from spectral data

From: Early detection of pine wilt disease in Pinus tabuliformis in North China using a field portable spectrometer and UAV-based hyperspectral imagery

Variables

Description

Formula

Reference

MSI

Moisture stress index

\( \mathrm{MSI}=\frac{R_{1600}}{R_{820}} \)

Gao (1996)

WI1

Water index

\( \mathrm{WI}1=\frac{R_{970}}{R_{900}} \)

Hardisky et al. (1983)

WI2

Water index

\( \mathrm{WI}2=\frac{R_{950}}{R_{900}} \)

Hardisky et al. (1983)

NDWI

Normalized difference water index

\( \mathrm{NDWI}=\frac{\left({R}_{860}-{R}_{1240}\right)}{\left({R}_{860}+{R}_{1600}\right)} \)

Prasad et al. (2006)

NDII

Normalized difference infrared index

\( \mathrm{NDII}=\frac{\left({R}_{860}-{R}_{1600}\right)}{\left({R}_{860}+{R}_{1600}\right)} \)

Verikas et al. (2011)