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Table 2 Vegetation Indices (VI) tested in this study

From: Remote estimation of leaf area index (LAI) with unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imaging for different rice cultivars throughout the entire growing season

VI

Formula

References

NDVI

\((\rho_{NIR} - \rho_{red} )/(\rho_{NIR} + \rho_{red} )\)

Rouse et al. [71]

EVI2

\(2.5 \times (\rho_{NIR} - \rho_{red} )/(1 + \rho_{NIR} + 2.4 \times \rho_{red} )\)

Jiang et al. [35]

WDRVI

\((\alpha \times \rho_{NIR} - \rho_{red} )/(\alpha \times \rho_{NIR} + \rho_{red} )\), \(\alpha = 0.2\)

Gitelson et al. [72]

\({\text{CI}}_{{{\text{green}}}}\)

\(\rho_{NIR} /\rho_{green} - 1\)

Gitelson et al. [73]

\({\text{CI}}_{{{\text{rededge}}}}\)

\(\rho_{NIR} /\rho_{red edge} - 1\)

Gitelson et al. [73]

NDRE

\((\rho_{NIR} - \rho_{red edge} )/(\rho_{NIR} + \rho_{red edge} )\)

Gitelson et al. [74]

MTCI

\((\rho_{NIR} - \rho_{red edge} )/(\rho_{red edge} - \rho_{red} )\)

Dash et al. [75]

OSAVI

\((1 + 0.16) \times (\rho_{NIR} - \rho_{red edge} )/(\rho_{NIR} + \rho_{red edge} + 0.16)\)

Steven et al. [76]