A standardized catalogue of spectral indices to advance the use of remote sensing in Earth system research

Spectral Indices derived from multispectral remote sensing products are extensively used to monitor Earth system dynamics (e.g. vegetation dynamics, water bodies, fire regimes). The rapid increase of proposed spectral indices led to a high demand for catalogues of spectral indices and tools for their computation. However, most of these resources are either closed-source, outdated, unconnected to a catalogue or lacking a common Application Programming Interface (API). Here we present "Awesome Spectral Indices" (ASI), a standardized catalogue of spectral indices for Earth system research. ASI provides a comprehensive machine readable catalogue of spectral indices, which is linked to a Python library. ASI…

• NM
  Niedersächsische Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur
• ES
  European Space Agency
• DF
  Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft