The present invention relates to a method of calculating a
Topography Adjusted
Vegetation Index (TAVI) based on a
band ratio model and a
solar altitude angle. The method includes the folio wing steps: obtaining the apparent reflectance data of a
remote sensing image through image preprocessing, analyzing the quality of the image and numerical distribution, calculating a Shadow
Vegetation Index (SVI), and constructing a TAVI combinational
algorithm:TAVI=BirBr+f(Δ)·1Br,calculating an adjustment factor f (Δ) with the
solar altitude angle, and finally obtaining anti-topographic effect TAVI
vegetation information. The TAVI in the present invention is composed of
two band ratio submodels RVI and SVI, the denominators of both of which are red band data of a
remote sensing image, and the adjustment factor f(Δ), which is calculated by a
solar altitude angle as a parameter with a sensor factor applied, has great physical significance. The TAVI calculation method does not need
digital elevation model (DEM) data and
remote sensing image classification when not depending on
ground survey data,, and ensures that the interference of the topographic effects with the
vegetation information can be effectively eliminated by the TAVI, thereby avoiding the problem of reduced inversion accuracy of ground
vegetation information due to different registration accuracy of a remote sensing image and DEM data.