Open AccessCorrelation of normalized difference water index and baseflow index in small island watershed landscapes
Author(s) -
Bokiraiya Latuamury,
Moda Talaohu,
F Sahusilawane,
Wilma N Imlabla
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/883/1/012072
Subject(s) - baseflow , watershed , environmental science , index (typography) , hydrology (agriculture) , land cover , remote sensing , normalized difference vegetation index , land use , geography , geology , drainage basin , cartography , streamflow , climate change , oceanography , ecology , computer science , geotechnical engineering , machine learning , world wide web , biology
The utilization of remote sensing data in the field of environmental hydrology is experiencing rapid progress. The Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) approach to transforming the water content of various land cover types and its implications for small island watersheds' hydrological characteristics is essential. NDWI is an algorithm used to detect water bodies, with the capacity to absorb visible and infrared wavelengths strongly. This study aims to analyze the correlation between the NDWI water index and the BFI baseflow index in the small island landscape of Ambon City. The Landsat 7 ETM + and Landsat 8 OLI image processing methods use ENVI 5.3 software to transform the NDWI algorithm and the BFI + 3.0 digital recursive filtering (RDF) method for hydrological characterization. The results showed that there was a strong correlation between the NDWI water index and the baseflow index (BFI) for the small island watershed of Ambon city. This result is relevant to the geographic area of Ambon City, which is dominated by the ocean 95% and land area 5%, so the application of the NDWI water index and the hydrological conditions of small island watersheds are significant.