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Water detection with the Modified Normalized Difference Water Index

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mNDWI or NDSI (Normalized Difference Snow Index) is mNDWI = NDSI = (Green-SWIR1) / (Green+SWIR1). The Modified index has increased rejection of land and vegetation features over NDWI.

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  • Xu, H., 2006. Modification of normalised difference water index (NDWI) to enhance open water features in remotely sensed imagery. International journal of remote sensing, 27(14), pp.3025-3033.

​Tutorials

  1. Head to the ODC Sandbox (click here) and login with GitHub Open Authorization.

  2. Open the /examples folder.

  3. Open and run the /examples/Landing_Page.ipynb notebook block by block.

  4. In block [2], use the map interface to draw a small area of interest, and select a time frame.

  5. Click "Query Cube" and review the number of tiles that will be accessed. Less than 100 will run quickly.

  6. Run block [3], 'band_indices_aws_landsat8', click on the mNDWI button, and calculate mNDWI for anywhere inside your previous bounds.

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Code/Python Notebooks

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GitHub Resources

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