Summary
Calculates the Visible Atmospherically Resistant Index (VARI) from a multiband raster object and returns a raster object with the index values.
Discussion
The Visible Atmospherically Resistant Index (VARI) method is a vegetation index for estimating vegetation fraction quantitatively with only the visible range of the spectrum.
VARI = (Green - Red) / (Green + Red – Blue)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
VARI (raster, {red_band_id}, {green_band_id}, {blue_band_id})| Parameter | Explanation | Data Type |
raster | The input raster. | Raster |
red_band_id | The band ID of the red-edge band. The band ID index uses one-based indexing. (The default value is 3) | Integer |
green_band_id | The band ID of the green band. The ID index uses one-based indexing. (The default value is 2) | Integer |
blue_band_id | The band ID of the blue band. The ID index uses one-based indexing. (The default value is 1) | Integer |
| Data Type | Explanation |
| Raster | The output raster with the VARI values. |
Code sample
Calculates the Visible Atmospherically Resistant Index for a Landsat 8 image.
import arcpy
VARI_raster = arcpy.sa.VARI("Landsat8.tif",4,3,2)