Everything about Normalized difference vegetation index

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Normalized difference vegetation indexA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Demystifying normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) for greenness exposure assessments and policy interventions in urban greeningInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Intelligence BulletinThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: NDWI—A normalized difference water index for remote sensing of vegetation liquid water from spaceCited 5,965 times
5. Go sideways: Enhanced vegetation indexA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Vegetation indexA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• NDWI—A normalized difference water index for remote sensing of vegetation liquid water from space

  Bo-cai Gao · 1996 · Remote Sensing of Environment · 5,965 citations

• The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI): unforeseen successes in animal ecology

  N Pettorelli, S Ryan, T Mueller · 2011 · Climate Research · 736 citations

• Analysis of the dynamics of African vegetation using the normalized difference vegetation index

  J. R. G. TOWNSHEND, C. O. JUSTICE · 1986 · International Journal of Remote Sensing · 397 citations

• Relation between the normalized difference vegetation index and ecological variables

  J. Cihlar, L. St.-Laurent, J.A. Dyer · 1991 · Remote Sensing of Environment · 200 citations

• Relative sensitivity of normalized difference vegetation Index (NDVI) and microwave polarization difference Index (MPDI) for vegetation and desertification monitoring

  Francois Becker, Bhaskar J Choudhury · 1988 · Remote Sensing of Environment · 178 citations

• Wheat basal crop coefficients determined by normalized difference vegetation index

  Douglas J. Hunsaker, Paul J. Pinter, Bruce A. Kimball · 2005 · Irrigation Science · 124 citations

• Analysis of vegetation recovery surrounding a restored wetland using the normalized difference infrared index (NDII) and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI)

  Natalie R. Wilson, Laura M. Norman · 2018 · International Journal of Remote Sensing · 87 citations

• Estimating Rice Grain Yield Potential Using Normalized Difference Vegetation Index

  D. L. Harrell, B. S. Tubaña, T. W. Walker · 2011 · Agronomy Journal · 73 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Demystifying normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) for greenness exposure assessments and policy interventions in urban greening

  Alex de la Iglesia Martinez, S.M. Labib · 2023 · Environmental Research · 351 citations

• Spatiotemporally consistent global dataset of the GIMMS Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (PKU GIMMS NDVI) from 1982 to 2022

  Muyi Li, Sen Cao, Zaichun Zhu · 2023 · Earth System Science Data · 298 citations

• Shortcomings of the normalized difference vegetation index as an exposure metric

  Geoffrey H. Donovan, Demetrios Gatziolis, Monika Derrien · 2022 · Nature Plants · 62 citations

• The normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) of the Zat valley, Marrakech: comparison and dynamics

  Adaze Essaadia, Algouti Abdellah, Algouti Ahmed · 2022 · Heliyon · 44 citations

• Assessing Normalized Difference Vegetation Index as a proxy of urban greenspace exposure

  Yang Ju, Iryna Dronova, Qin Ma · 2024 · Urban Forestry & Urban Greening · 31 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Intelligence BulletinUnited States. War Department. Military Intelligence Service · 1942
• The history of Detroit and MichiganSilas Farmer · 1884
• The Normalized Difference Vegetation IndexNathalie Pettorelli · 2013
• Use of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index to Assess Land Degradation at Multiple ScalesGenesis T. Yengoh, David Dent · 2015
• 📕Use of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index Habitat Models to Predict Breeding Birds on the San Pedro River, ArizonaU.S. Department of the Interior Staff · 2014
• 📕Greenness Products Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), 1998, Data Archives, General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-27-CD, April 1999, Set of 5, (CD-ROM) · 1999
• 📕NDVI and derived image dataRobert E. Burgan, Carolyn H. Chase · 1998
• 📕Climate change and sustainable developmentAssociation of Nigerian Geographers. Annual Conference · 2012

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