Vegetation Index

Abbreviation

Equation

References

Red Chromatic Coordinate Index

RCC

R/(R + G + B)

Woebbecke et al. (1995)

Green Chromatic Coordinate Index

GCC

G/(R + G + B)

Woebbecke et al. (1995)

Excess Green Index

ExG

(2G − B − R)

Woebbecke et al. (1995)

Excess Green Index 2

ExG2

(2G − B − R)/(R + G + B)

Woebbecke et al. (1995)

Excess Red Index

ExR

(1.4R − G)/(R + G + B)

Meyer et al. (1999)

Excess Green minus Excess Red Index

ExGR

(ExG2 − ExR)

Meyer et al. (2006)

Green Red Vegetation Index

GRVI

(G − R)/(G + R)

Hunt et al. (2005)

Visible Band Difference Vegetation Index

VDVI

(2G − R − B)/(2G + R + B)

Xiaoqin et al. (2015)

Visible Atmospherically Resistant Index

VARI

(G − R)/(G + R − B)

Gitelson et al. (2002)

Modified Green Red Vegetation Index

MGRVI

(G^2 − R^2)/(G^2 + R^2)

Bendig et al. (2015)

Color Index of Vegetation

CIVE

(0.441R − 0.881G + 0.385B + 18.747)

Kataoka et al. (2003)

Vegetative Index

VEG

G/(R^0.667*B^0.334)

Hague et al. (2006)

Woebbecke Index

WI

(G − B)/(R − G)

Woebbecke et al. (1995)

Normalized Difference Vegetation Index

NDVI

(NIR − R)/(NIR + R)

Rouse et al. (1974)

Red Edge Normalized Difference Vegetation Index

NDRE

(NIR − RE)/(NIR + RE)

Gitelson and Merzlyak (1994)

Green Normalized Difference Vegetation Inxed

GNDVI

(NIR − G)/(NIR + G)

Gitelson and Merzlyak (1994)

Enhanced Vegetation Index 2

EVI2

2.5 × (NIR − R)/(NIR + 2.4 × R + 1)

Huete et al. (2002)

Red Edge Simple Ratio

SRRE

(NIR)/(RE)

Gitelson et al. (2005)

Modified Simple Ratio

MSR

(NIR/R − 1)/[((NIR/R) + 1))^(1/2)]

Wu et al. (2008)

Green Chlorophyll Index

CIG

(NIR/G) − 1

Gitelson et al. (2003)

Red Edge Chlorophyll Index

CIRE

(NIR/RE) − 1

Gitelson et al. (2003)

Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer Terrestrial Chlorophyll Index

MTCI

(NIR − RE)/(RE + R)

Dash and Curran (2004)

Core Red Edge Triangular Vegetation Index

RTVIC

100(NIR − RE) − 10(NIR − G)

Nicolas et al. (2010)