photobiology (version 0.9.30)

normalized_diff_ind: Calculate a normalized index.

Description

This method returns a normalized difference index value for an arbitrary pair of wavebands. There are many such indexes in use, such as NDVI (normalized difference vegetation index), NDWI (normalized difference water index), NDMI (normalized difference moisture index), etc., the only difference among then is in the wavebands used.

Usage

normalized_diff_ind(spct, plus.w.band, minus.w.band, f, ...)

normalised_diff_ind(spct, plus.w.band, minus.w.band, f, ...)

NDxI(spct, plus.w.band, minus.w.band, f, ...)

# S3 method for default normalized_diff_ind(spct, plus.w.band, minus.w.band, f, ...)

# S3 method for generic_spct normalized_diff_ind(spct, plus.w.band, minus.w.band, f, ...)

# S3 method for generic_mspct normalized_diff_ind(spct, plus.w.band, minus.w.band, f, ...)

Arguments

spct

an R object

plus.w.band

waveband objects The waveband determine the region of the spectrum used in the calculations

minus.w.band

waveband objects The waveband determine the region of the spectrum used in the calculations

f

function used for integration taking spct as first argument and a list of wavebands as second argument.

...

additional arguments passed to f

Value

A numeric value for the index, or a tibble depending on whether a spectrum or a collection of spectra is passed as first argument.

Methods (by class)

  • default: default

  • generic_spct:

  • generic_mspct:

Details

f is most frequently reflectance, but also transmittance, or even absorbance, response, irradiance or a user-defined function can be used if there is a good reason for it. In every case spct should be of the class expected by f. When using two wavebands of different widths do consider passing to f a suitable quantity argument. Wavebands can describe weighting functions if desired.