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WRIWater Ratio Index

WaterMultispectralCitation Rank #172

Summary

The Water Ratio Index (WRI) is a water spectral index intended for multispectral sensing. It was introduced in 2010; its source is cited as Li Shen, & Changchun Li (2010). Water body extraction from Landsat ETM+ imagery using adaboost algorithm. 2010 18th International Conference on Geoinformatics. https://doi.org/10.1109/geoinformatics.2010.5567762 .

Based on the latest citation data, this index is in the 46.06th percentile overall, ranking 172 out of 317 indices with citation data. Among the 33 indices published within two years of 2010, it ranks 21 (39.39th percentile). Within the water application domain, it is in the 65.62th percentile and ranks 12 out of 32 indices with citation data. Among the 3 similarly aged water indices, it ranks 3 (33.33th percentile).

Formula

(G + R)/(N + S1)

Bands

G

Green.

R

Red.

N

Near-Infrared (NIR).

S1

Short-wave Infrared (SWIR) 1.

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.