Remotely sensed reflectance data are generally expressed in terms of different vegetation
indices. Most commonly used Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)is proved useful
in estimating biomass and yield of some crops like wheat (Yuzhu, 1990). But NDVI has some
limitations like it approaches saturation asymptotically under conditions of moderate-to-high
aboveground biomass. Reflectance in the red regionshows a nearly flat response if the leaf
area index (LAI) exceeds 2. Whereas the near infrared (NIR) reflectance nicely responses to
changes in moderate-to-high vegetation density (LAI from 2 to 6). This limitation had been
overcame by introducing one weighing coefficient in Wide Dynamic Range Vegetation Index
(WDRVI), which showed at least 3 times more response than NDVI when LAI value was within
2 to 6 (Gitelson, 2004). In case of weed map, developed by four-band airborne video camera,
Soil Adjusted Vegetation Index(SAVI) proved more useful than NDVI (Lamb et al., 1999).
Another type of useful vegetation index, Perpendicular Vegetation Index (PVI), uses red and
infrared reflectance.