Generalization of Vegetation Indices for Monitoring the Terrestrial Biosphere
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Vegetation indices are the most widely used tool in remote sensing and multispectral imaging applications. This paper introduces a nonlinear generalization of the broad family of vegetation indices based on spectral band differences and ratios. The presented indices exploit all higher-order relations of the involved spectral channels, are easy to derive and use, and give some insight on problem complexity. The framework is illustrated to generalize the widely adopted Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). Its nonlinear generalization named, kernel NDVI (kNDVI), largely improves performance over NDVI and the recent NIRv in monitoring key vegetation parameters, showing much higher correlation with independent products, such as the MODIS leaf area index (LAI), flux tower gross primary productivity (GPP), and GOME-2 sun-induced fluorescence. The family of indices constitutes a valuable choice for many applications that require spatially explicit and time-resolved analysis of Earth observation data. Reference: "A Unified Vegetation Index for Quantifying the Terrestrial Biosphere", Gustau Camps-Valls, Manuel Campos-Taberner, Álvaro Moreno-Martı́nez, Sophia Walther, Grégory Duveiller, Alessandro Cescatti, Miguel Mahecha, Jordi Muñoz-Marı́, Francisco Javier Garcı́a-Haro, Luis Guanter, John Gamon, Martin Jung, Markus Reichstein, Steven W. Running. Science Advances, in press, 2021
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".