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Articles | Volume XLII-3
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-3-1253-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-3-1253-2018
30 Apr 2018
 | 30 Apr 2018

CANOPY MODELING OF AQUATIC VEGETATION: CONSTRUCTION OF SUBMERGED VEGETATION INDEX

Z. Ma and G. Zhou

Keywords: Remote Sensing, Submerged Vegetation, Vegetation Index, Radiative Transfer Model, Sentinel-2A

Abstract. The unique spectral characteristics of submerged vegetation in wetlands determine that the conventional terrestrial vegetation index cannot be directly employed to species identification and parameter inversion of submerged vegetation. Based on the Aquatic Vegetation Radiative Transfer model (AVRT), this paper attempts to construct an index suitable for submerged vegetation, the model simulated data and a scene of Sentinel-2A image in Taihu Lake, China are utilized for assessing the performance of the newly constructed indices and the existent vegetation indices. The results show that the angle index composed by 525 nm, 555 nm and 670 nm can resist the effects of water columns and is more sensitive to vegetation parameters such as LAI. Furthermore, it makes a well discrimination between submerged vegetation and water bodies in the satellite data. We hope that the new index will provide a theoretical basis for future research.