Vegetation index derived from the AVIRIS hyper-spectral airborne imagery

The objective of this paper is the description of the development and the validation, using airborne hyper-spectral imagery data, of a non-conventional technique for the vegetation information extraction. The proposed approach namely the universal pattern decomposition method (UPDM) is tailored for hyper-spectral imagery analysis, which can be explained using two analysis methods: spectral mixing analysis and multivariate analysis. For the former, the UPDM expresses the spectrum of each pixel as the linear sum of three fixed, standard spectral patterns (i.e., the patterns of water, vegetation, and soil); each coefficient represents the ratio of spectral patterns of three components. If we think of the UPDM as multivariate analysis, standard patterns are interpreted as an oblique coordinate system, and coefficients are thought of as the coordinates of a pixel's reflectance. The later explanation is much more comprehensible than the former for the reason of additional supplementary pattern presence when necessary. This paper validates the UPDM using AVIRIS airborne imagery, and the results provide an expected assumption.Imaging Science & Photographic TechnologyCPCI-S(ISTP)