Indices Vegetation Synthetic Aperture Radar

Radar Indices

This service provides a radar vegetation index (RVI) image for your specified region of interest.

RVI is a measure of vegetation abundance, and can therefore be used through a crop or pasture growing season to assess the relative amounts of vegetation present. Similar to how Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is used, but measuring abundance rather than vigour/greenness, RVI images have the benefit of all-weather validity. Given a region of interest, the algorithm is run using Sentinel-1 to return the indices from the start date to the optional end date. Imagery is output as a GeoTIFF for each set of input VH and VV files for a specific date, with a single band representing the calculated index. Pixel values are typically on a normalised scale (0 to 4). All GeoTIFF files are provided at native resolution of the inputs.

Indices Vegetation Synthetic Aperture Radar

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Budykho, K., Boureanu, I., Wesemeyer, S., Romero, D., Lewis, M., Rahulan, Y., Rajaona, F. and Schneider, S. (2023) "Fine-Grained Trackability in Protocol Executions" Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2023

Miller, R., Boureanu, I., Wesemeyer, S., Newton, C.J.P. (2022) "The 5G Key-Establishment Stack: In-Depth Formal Verification and Experimentation" Proceedings of the 2022 ACM on Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Scarles, C., Treharne, H., Casey, M.C., Abidin, H.Z. (2020) "Micro-mobilities in Curated Spaces: Agency, Autonomy and Dwelling in Visitor Experiences of Augmented Reality in Arts and Heritage" Mobilities

Hickman, D.L., Smith, M.I., Lim, J., Jeon, Y. (2018) "Modelling of Celestial Backgrounds" Proceedings of SPIE 10641, Sensors and Systems for Space Applications XI

Al-Khalili, J., Smith, A., Sen, P. (2017) "Gravity and Me: the Force that Shapes our Lives" BBC 4 science programme using an iOS and Android app to measure local relativity effects

Treharne, H., Casey, M.C., Schneider, S., Wesemeyer, S., Ross, T., May, A., Blainey, S., Pritchard, J. (2016) "Integrating Data Sources to Enhance the Experience for Passengers with Special Needs and/or Disabilities through Privacy Aware Mobile Applications" Data to Improve the Customer Experience, RRUKA, 20/09/2016 Download

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