These Landsat 4 TM Collection 1 Tier 1 composites are made from Tier 1 orthorectified scenes, using the
computed top-of-atmosphere (TOA) reflectance.
See Chander et al. (2009)
for details on the TOA computation.
The Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) is sensitive
to changes in liquid water content of vegetation canopies. It is
derived from the Near-IR band and a second IR band, ≈1.24μm when
available and the nearest available IR band otherwise. It ranges in
value from -1.0 to 1.0. See
Gao (1996)
for details.
These composites are created from
all the scenes in each
8-day period beginning from the first day of the year and continuing
to the 360th day of the year. The last composite of the year,
beginning on day 361, will overlap the first composite of the
following year by 3 days. All the images from each 8-day period are
included in the composite, with the most recent pixel as the composite value.
Bands
Bands
Name
Pixel Size
Description
NDWI
30 meters
Normalized Difference Water Index
Terms of Use
Terms of Use
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These Landsat 4 TM Collection 1 Tier 1 composites are made from Tier 1 orthorectified scenes, using the computed top-of-atmosphere (TOA) reflectance. See Chander et al. (2009) for details on the TOA computation. The Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) is sensitive to changes in liquid water content of vegetation canopies. …
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