Abstract. Several studies have shown that vegetation indexes can be used to estimate root zone soil moisture. Earth surface images, obtained by high-resolution satellites, presently give a lot of information on these indexes, based on the data of several wavelengths. Because of the potential capacity for systematic observations at various scales, remote sensing technology extends the possible data archives from the present time to several decades back. Because of this advantage, enormous efforts have been made by researchers and application specialists to delineate vegetation indexes from local scale to global scale by applying remote sensing imagery.In this work, four band images have been considered, which are involved in these vegetation indexes, and were taken by satellites Ikonos-2 and Landsat-7 of the same geographic location, to study the effect of both spatial (pixel size) and radiometric (number of bits coding the image) resolution on these wavelength bands as well as two vegetation indexes: the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and the Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI).In order to do so, a multi-fractal analysis of these multispectral images was applied in each of these bands and the two indexes derived. The results showed that spatial resolution has a similar scaling effect in the four bands, but radiometric resolution has a larger influence in blue and green bands than in red and near-infrared bands. The NDVI showed a higher sensitivity to the radiometric resolution than EVI. Both were equally affected by the spatial resolution.From both factors, the spatial resolution has a major impact in the multi-fractal spectrum for all the bands and the vegetation indexes. This information should be taken in to account when vegetation indexes based on different satellite sensors are obtained.
Abstract. Several studies point out that vegetation indexes can been used to estimate root zone soil moisture and earth surface images, obtained by high resolution satellites, give presently huge information on these indexes based in several wavelengths data. Because of the potential capacity for systematic observations at various scales, remote sensing technology extends possible data archives from present time to over several decades back. For this advantage, enormous efforts have been made by researchers and application specialists to delineate vegetation indexes from local scale to global scale by applying remote sensing imagery. In this work, four bands images have been considered, involved in these vegetation indexes, taken by satellites IKONOS-2 and LANDSAT-7 of the same geographic location to study the effect of both spatial (pixel size) and radiometric (number of bits coding the image) resolution on these wavelength bands. In order to do so, a multifractal analysis of these multi-spectral images was applied in each of these bands. The results showed that spatial resolution has a similar scaling effect in the four bands, but radiometric resolution has a larger influence in Blue and Green bands than in Red and Near InfraRed bands. This information should be taken in to account when vegetation indexes based on different satellite sensors are obtained.
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