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. 2026 Feb 10;17:1747657. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2026.1747657

Table 6.

Remote sensing features and their calculation formulas.

Abbreviation Full Name Calculation Formulas Serial Number
B Blue band B=i,jPi,j/N2 (10)
H Hue H=1Np(i,j)maskPH(i,j) (11)
RGRI Red-Green Ratio Index RGRI=R/G (12)
WIstd Width Index Standard Deviation WIstd=1Ni=1N(WI(i)WImean)2 (13)
NGRDI Normalized Green-Red Difference Index NGRDI=(G-R)/(G+R) (14)
VARI Visible Atmospherically Resistant Index VARI=(G-R)/(G+R-B) (15)
MGVRI Modified Green-Red Vegetation Index MGVRI=(G2- R2)/(G2 + R2) (16)
GRVI Green-Red Vegetation Index GRVI=(G-R)/(G+R) (17)
NDGI Normalized Difference Greenness Index NDGI=(G-R)/(G+R) (18)
GRNDVI Green-Red Normalized Difference Vegetation Index GRNDVI=/(NIR/R)*[(NIR-R)/(NIR+R)+1] (19)
NDRE Normalized Difference Red Edge Index NDRE=(NIR-RE)/(NIR+RE) (20)
WImean Width Index Mean WImean=1Ni=1NWI(i) (21)
a color channel a average a=1Np(i,j)maskpa(i,j) (22)
ExR Excess Red Index EXR=1.4R-G (23)
ExGR Excess Green minus Excess Red Index ExGR=ExG-1.4R-G (24)
GNDVI Green Normalized Difference Vegetation Index GNDVI=(NIR–G)/(NIR+G) (25)
G Green band G=i,jPi,j/N2 (26)
COM Combination Coefficient COM=0.25ExG+0.3ExGR+0.33CIVE+0.12VEG (27)

i denotes the number of rows of pixels, j denotes the number of columns of pixels, P(i, j) denotes the grayscale value at position (i, j) in the image, x and y denote the variances of px(i) and px(j), N denotes the number of rows or columns, and RE, NIR, R, B, G denote the average reflectance of the red edge band, near-infrared band, red band, blue band, and green band respectively.