%0 Journal Article %T Dise£¿o de ¨ªndices espectrales de la vegetaci¨®n usando curvas iso-suelo %A Paz-Pellat %A Fernando %A Reyes %A Marisol %A Mediano %A Edgardo %J Agrociencia %D 2011 %I Colegio de Postgraduados %X the design of spectral vegetation indexes (vi) based on the lines iso-leaf area index (same amount of vegetation and different optical properties of the soils under the vegetation) in two bands of the electromagnetic spectrum, the red (r) and near-infrared (nir), is complicated because of the expolinear pattern with change of slope, among the parameters that define these lines. an alternative design is to consider the patterns of iso-soil curves (same soil, and varying amounts of vegetation), using the nir as a saturation band as slow as possible. the introduced index isvi (vi based on the iso-soil curves) allows this type of approach, by using a transformation of the space of r to make it coincide with the soil line and a mathematical structure similar to uni-band spectral indexes. isvi validation using radiative simulations and crop experiments produced acceptable results, particularly with a perspective of minimizing the soil effect at p¨ªxel by p¨ªxel scale. the transformation of the isvi allows parameterization of the growth curve in a linear format, simple to implement in algorithmic terms. %K isvi %K iso-soil curves %K uni-band indexes %K soil effect %K parametric curve of growth. %U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1405-31952011000100011&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en