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NDVI: Normalized Difference Vegetation Index Calculated using the visible (R) and Non-visible (NIR)
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NDVI
Disease and physiological stresses directly affect the reflectance properties of individual leaves, starting with changes in the visible spectral region rather than in the infrared due to the sensitivity of chlorophyll to physiological disturbances. The primary basis for the detection of stress conditions in a crop by aerial remote sensors often, however, is not only a change in the reflectance characteristics of individual leaves, but also a reduction in the total leaf area exposed to the sensors. This reduction can result from a direct loss of leaves, a change in their orientation, or an overall suppression of plant growth. In such cases the total infrared reflectance tends to be decreased due to fewer leaf layers and because of an increase in background exposure. Vegetation indices like NDVI (normalized difference vegetation index) take both this phenomena into account by subtracting the reflectance in the near infrared part of the spectrum from the reflectance in the visible red portion of the spectrum. This way NDVI holds a very high correlation with the gross primary productivity of a crop which is a function of the amount of leaf area and its chlorophyll content. Normalization is achieved dividing this difference by the sum of the near infrared reflectance and red reflectance, restricting values to a 1 to 1 range and partially compensating differences in the illumination due to sun angle, anisotropic reflection, etc.
Reflectance of vegetation
Leaf Pigments Leaf Cell Structure Water content Factor affecting Leaf reflectance
Clorophyll Absortion Water Absortion Absorption Bands
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reflectancia Reflectance
0.40
0.47
0.53
0.59
0.64
0.71
0.78
0.99
1.15
1.30
1.45
1.62
1.87
Wavelength in mm longitud de onda (micrones) Visible Reflected infrared Near Infrared Short wave Infrared Spectrum Zones
2.17
NDVI
Yield File
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**Courtesy of ISA
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24-row center fill planter 40k lb. tractor, 30k lb. planter April 2011 planting Wet soils
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Misapplication of N Yield Monitor will not show this data due to averaging across rows
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