Evaluating the capabilities of vegetation spectral indices on chlorophyll content estimation at Sentinel-2 spectral resolutions

Qi Sun; Quanjun Jiao; Huayang Dai

doi:10.1117/12.2285611

8 March 2018 Evaluating the capabilities of vegetation spectral indices on chlorophyll content estimation at Sentinel-2 spectral resolutions

Qi Sun, Quanjun Jiao, Huayang Dai

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Proceedings Volume 10611, MIPPR 2017: Remote Sensing Image Processing, Geographic Information Systems, and Other Applications; 106111F (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2285611
Event: Tenth International Symposium on Multispectral Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (MIPPR2017), 2017, Xiangyang, China

Abstract

Chlorophyll is an important pigment in green plants for photosynthesis and obtaining the energy for growth and development. The rapid, nondestructive and accurate estimation of chlorophyll content is significant for understanding the crops growth, monitoring the disease and insect, and assessing the yield of crops. Sentinel-2 equipped with the Multi-Spectral Instrument (MSI), which will provide images with high spatial, spectral and temporal resolution. It covers the VNIR/SWIR spectral region in 13 bands and incorporates two new spectral bands in the red-edge region and a spatial resolution of 20nm, which can be used to derive vegetation indices using red-edge bands. In this paper, we will focus on assessing the potential of vegetation spectral indices for retrieving chlorophyll content from Sentinel-2 at different angles. Subsequently, we used in-situ spectral data and Sentinel-2 data to test the relationship between VIs and chlorophyll content. The REP, MTCI, CI_red-edge, CI_green, Macc01, TCARI/OSAVI [705,750], NDRE1 and NDRE2 were calculated. NDRE2 index displays a strongly similar result for hyperspectral and simulated Sentinel-2 spectral bands (R² =0.53, R² =0.51, for hyperspectral and Sentinel-2, respectively). At different observation angles, NDRE2 has the smallest difference in performance (R² = 0.51, R² =0.64, at 0° and 15° , respectively).

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Qi Sun, Quanjun Jiao, and Huayang Dai "Evaluating the capabilities of vegetation spectral indices on chlorophyll content estimation at Sentinel-2 spectral resolutions", Proc. SPIE 10611, MIPPR 2017: Remote Sensing Image Processing, Geographic Information Systems, and Other Applications, 106111F (8 March 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2285611

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