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Table 2 Multi-band water indexes

From: Near infrared band of Landsat 8 as water index: a case study around Cordova and Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu, Philippines

Author

Formula

Landsat-8 Bands

McFeeters [1]

NDWI = (Green − NIR)/(Green + NIR)

Band 2: Blue

Band 3: Green

Band 4: Red

Band 5: NIR

Band 6: SWIR1

Band 7: SWIR2

Rogers and Kearney [2]

NDWI = (Red − SWIR1)/(Red + SWIR1)

Xu [3]

MNDWI = (Green − SWIR1)/(Green + SWIR1)

Feyisa et al. [4]

AWEInsh = 4(Green − SWIR1) − (0.25(NIR) + 2.75(SWIR2))

AWEIsh = Blue + 2.5(Green) − 1.5(NIR + SWIR1) − 0.25(SWIR2)