RTVICore

Summary

Calculates the Red-Edge Triangulated Vegetation Index (RTVICore) from a multiband raster object and returns a raster object with the index values.

Discussion

The Red-Edge Triangulated Vegetation Index (RTVICore) method is a vegetation index for estimating leaf area index and biomass. This index uses reflectance in the NIR, red-edge, and green spectral bands.

RTVICore = (100*(NIR - RedEdge) - 10*(NIR - Green))

For information about other multiband raster indexes, see the Band Arithmetic raster function.

The referenced raster dataset for the raster object is temporary. To make it permanent, you can call the raster object's save method.

Syntax

RTVICore (raster, {nir_band_id}, {redEdge_band_id}, {green_band_id})
ParameterExplanationData Type
raster

The input raster.

Raster
nir_band_id

The band ID of the near-infrared band. The ID index uses one-based indexing.

(The default value is 7)

Integer
redEdge_band_id

The band ID of the red-edge band. The band ID index uses one-based indexing.

(The default value is 6)

Integer
green_band_id

The band ID of the green band. The ID index uses one-based indexing.

(The default value is 3)

Integer
Return Value
Data TypeExplanation
Raster

The output raster with the RTVICore index values.

Code sample

RTVICore example

Calculates the Red-Edge Triangulated Vegetation Index for a Sentinel-2 image.

import arcpy

RTVICore_raster = arcpy.sa.RTVICore("Sentinel2.tif",8,5,3)

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