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Data Institute Activity: Calculate Index of Interest
Last Updated: Oct 7, 2020
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Last Updated: Oct 7, 2020
There are many different indices you might want in your research. NEON provides several indices as data products that have already been calculated and can will be available for download from the NEON data portal.
In this 20 minute video David Hulslander describes NEON Data Products including several remote sensing vegetation indices.
Choose an index of interest. You may want to check out Verena Henrich & Katharina BrĂ¼ser's Index Database for ideas: www.indexdatabase.de/ .
Work with your small group to create a script to calculate this index from the NEON data. Be sure to add comments so that the script is useful to others.
Add your script to the GitHub Repo: DI-NEON-participants to share with your
colleagues. Save scripts to the DI-NEON-participants/2018-RemoteSensing/rs-indices.
Be sure to provide a clear file name reflecting the contents. If you are
comfortable, we recommend you put you names in the script as others may want to
contact you about it.