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BaIBareness Index

SoilMultispectralCitation Rank #303

Summary

The Bareness Index (BaI) is a soil spectral index intended for multispectral sensing. Its source is cited as Haobo Lin, Jindi Wang, Suhong Liu, Yonghua Qu, & Huawei Wan (n.d.). Studies on urban areas extraction from landsat TM images. Proceedings. 2005 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2005. IGARSS '05., 6. https://doi.org/10.1109/igarss.2005.1525743 .

Based on the latest citation data, this index is in the 3.51th percentile overall, ranking 303 out of 313 indices with citation data. Within the soil application domain, it is in the 5.88th percentile and ranks 17 out of 17 indices with citation data.

Formula

R + S1 - N

Bands

R

Red.

S1

Short-wave Infrared (SWIR) 1.

N

Near-Infrared (NIR).

Polarizations

No radar polarizations are used in this index.

Constants

No constants are used in this index.

Reductions

No contextual reductions are used in this index.

Released under the MIT License.