Estimating the water status of vegetation is most important in crop irrigation and prediction of forest fire. This paper analyzes the relationships between vegetation water content (VWC) and land surface water index (LSWI) and between fractional vegetation cover and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) from 8-day composite MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) surface reflection products (MOD09A1), and the distribution regularities of different type of vegetation and its surface water content in LSWI-NDVI space. Two years’ 8-day composite MODIS Surface Reflection products were used to estimate the minimal and maximal water content lines of the hypothetical trapezoidal shape of NDVI-LSWI in the study area. Instead of the theoretical trapezoidal shape of fractional vegetation cover and Ts-Ta that indirectly estimated water status per fractional vegetation cover (Ts-Ta is surface (soil and canopy) temperature minus air temperature at measuring time), the vegetation dryness index (VDI) developed in this study was directly used to estimate vegetation water deficits at the canopy level by the trapezoidal shape of LSWI-NDVI. The technique simply estimated vegetation water status without measuring Ts-Ta.
ZHANG You-Shui, XIE Yuan-Li
. Vegetation Water Content Estimation Using NDVI and LSWI from MODIS Images[J]. SCIENTIA GEOGRAPHICA SINICA, 2008
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DOI: 10.13249/j.cnki.sgs.2008.01.72
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