xlandsat.nbr

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xlandsat.nbr#

xlandsat.nbr(scene, swir_band='swir2', nir_band='nir')[source]#

Normalized Burn Ratio

Calculate the NBR for the given scene, defined as:

\[NBR = \dfrac{NIR - SWIR}{NIR + SWIR}\]
Parameters:

  • scene (xarray.Dataset) – A Landsat scene, as read with xlandsat.load_scene.

  • swir_band (str) – The name of the variable in scene that corresponds to the SWIR band.

  • nir_band (str) – The name of the variable in scene that corresponds to the NIR band.

Returns:

nbr (xarray.DataArray) – The calculated NBR, with the metadata attributes from the original scene.

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