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Red edge is an ideal indicator for green vegetation\u2019s photosynthesis and biomass because of its strong connection with physicochemical parameters. In this study, red edge parameters (curve slope and reflectance) and the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) of two species of coniferous trees in Inner Mongolia, China, were studied using an unmanned aerial vehicle\u2019s hyperspectral visible-to-near-infrared images. Positive correlations between vegetation red edge slope and reflectance with different illuminated\/shaded canopy proportions were obtained, with all R2s beyond 0.850 (p &lt; 0.01). NDVI values performed steadily under changes of canopy shadow proportions. Therefore, we devised a new vegetation index named normalized difference canopy shadow index (NDCSI) using red edge\u2019s reflectance and the NDVI. Positive correlations (R2 = 0.886, p &lt; 0.01) between measured brightness values and NDCSI of validation samples indicated that NDCSI could differentiate illumination\/shadow circumstances of a vegetation canopy quantitatively. Combined with the bare soil index (BSI), NDCSI was applied for linear spectral mixture analysis (LSMA) using Sentinel-2 multispectral imaging. Positive correlations (R2 = 0.827, p &lt; 0.01) between measured brightness values and fractional illuminated vegetation cover (FIVC) demonstrate the capacity of NDCSI to accurately calculate the fractional cover of illuminated\/shaded vegetation, which can be utilized to calculate and extract the illuminated vegetation canopy from satellite images.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11101192","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,5,20]],"date-time":"2019-05-20T11:05:07Z","timestamp":1558350307000},"page":"1192","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":49,"title":["Analysis of Vegetation Red Edge with Different Illuminated\/Shaded Canopy Proportions and to Construct Normalized Difference Canopy Shadow Index"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Nianxu","family":"Xu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"International Institute for Earth System Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China"},{"name":"Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China"}]},{"given":"Jia","family":"Tian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School for the Environment, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA 02125, USA"}]},{"given":"Qingjiu","family":"Tian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"International Institute for Earth System Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China"},{"name":"Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China"}]},{"given":"Kaijian","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"International Institute for Earth System Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China"},{"name":"Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China"}]},{"given":"Shaofei","family":"Tang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"International Institute for Earth System Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China"},{"name":"Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,5,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"054019","DOI":"10.1088\/1748-9326\/10\/5\/054019","article-title":"Importance of vegetation dynamics for future terrestrial carbon cycling","volume":"10","author":"Ahlstrom","year":"2015","journal-title":"Environ. 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