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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 22.
Published in final edited form as: Remote Sens (Basel). 2018;10(4):580. doi: 10.3390/rs10040580

Table 1.

Correlation matrix of predictor variables. Linear correlations (|r| ≥ 0.89) are shaded gray.

Predictor Coastal Blue Green (B3) Yellow Red Red-Edge NIR1 NIR2 NDVI NDSI NDWI LP SD DTS Texture


(B1) (B2) (B4) (B5) (B6) (B7) (B8)
Blue (B2) 0.96
Green (B3) 0.87 0.88
Yellow (B4) 0.93 0.96 0.93
Red (B5) 0.87 0.95 0.79 0.94
Red Edge (B6) 0.42 0.46 0.75 0.57 0.40
NIR1 (B7) 0.21 0.27 0.56 0.38 0.26 0.95
NIR2 (B8) 0.21 0.29 0.55 0.39 0.29 0.93 0.99
NDVI −0.06 −0.02 0.29 0.09 −0.03 0.79 0.86 0.86
NDSI −0.65 −0.69 −0.41 − 0.70 −0.80 0.02 0.15 0.10 0.36
NDWI −0.21 −0.28 −0.52 −0.39 −0.30 −0.89 −0.94 −0.96 −0.92 −0.07
LP −0.21 −0.09 −0.07 −0.05 0.02 0.20 0.29 0.31 0.30 0.05 −0.30
SD 0.24 0.12 0.11 0.09 0.00 −0.16 −0.25 −0.28 −0.37 −0.05 0.34 −0.50
DTS 0.24 0.12 0.10 0.09 −0.01 −0.18 −0.28 −0.31 −0.39 −0.06 0.36 −0.50 0.99
Texture 0.03 0.04 −0.18 −0.02 0.10 −0.48 −0.5 −0.48 −0.61 −0.31 0.53 −0.05 0.11 0.14
DEM −0.17 −0.05 −0.06 −0.03 0.06 0.16 0.27 0.31 0.28 0.00 −0.34 0.48 −0.54 −0.53 −0.15

Note: LP = landscape position; SD = surface depression; DTS = distance to stream; NDVI = Normalized Difference Vegetation Index; NDSI = Normalized Difference Soil Index; NDWI = Normalized Difference Water Index; DEM = Digital Elevation Model.