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ISPRS JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY AND REMOTE SENSING
Volume 96, Issue -, Pages 20-27Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2014.06.013
Keywords
Geostatistics; Nugget variance; Semivariogram; Signal-to-noise ratio; Spectral vegetation index; Standardized noise
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41271372]
- National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) [2012AA12A301]
- U.S. Geological Survey Climate Effects Network and Global Change Research & Development Programs
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In the past 40 years, many spectral vegetation indices have been developed to quantify vegetation biophysical parameters. An ideal vegetation index should contain the maximum level of signal related to specific biophysical characteristics and the minimum level of noise such as background soil influences and atmospheric effects. However, accurate quantification of signal and noise in a vegetation index remains a challenge, because it requires a large number of field measurements or laboratory experiments. In this study, we applied a geostatistical method to estimate signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) for spectral vegetation indices. Based on the sample semivariogram of vegetation index images, we used the standardized noise to quantify the noise component of vegetation indices. In a case study in the grasslands and shrublands of the western United States, we demonstrated the geostatistical method for evaluating S/N for a series of soil-adjusted vegetation indices derived from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensor. The soil-adjusted vegetation indices were found to have higher SIN values than the traditional normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and simple ratio (SR) in the sparsely vegetated areas. This study shows that the proposed geostatistical analysis can constitute an efficient technique for estimating signal and noise components in vegetation indices. (C) 2014 International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Inc. (ISPRS). Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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