NDBI Urban Mapping

Map urban areas using Normalized Difference Built-up Index.

Pipeline (1 steps)

Map urban areas using Normalized Difference Built-up Index.

Datasets

landsat8

AOI modes

adminassetdraw

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Outputs the script produces

map Map layers

map Area statistics

map Export GeoTIFF

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ndbi-urban.js · 5 lines

// NDBI Urban Mapping
var l8 = ee.ImageCollection('LANDSAT/LC08/C02/T1_L2')
  .filterDate(startDate, endDate).filterBounds(aoi).median();
var ndbi = l8.normalizedDifference(['SR_B6','SR_B5']).rename('NDBI');
var result = ndbi;

ndbi-urban.py · 6 lines

# NDBI Urban Mapping
import ee
l8 = (ee.ImageCollection('LANDSAT/LC08/C02/T1_L2')
  .filterDate(start_date, end_date).filterBounds(aoi).median())
ndbi = l8.normalizedDifference(['SR_B6','SR_B5']).rename('NDBI')
result = ndbi

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