NDVI from RGB

NDVI from RGB drone imagery.

True NDVI needs a near-infrared band your RGB camera does not have. Nabhya infers a near-NDVI index from visible light instead — accurate enough to rank a field against itself, and honest about the difference.

What you get

Near-NDVI vegetation stress map inferred from an RGB drone photographnear-NDVI output
Inferred from visible light, aligned to the submitted frame.

The model was trained on 2,200 paired samples — an RGB frame and the matching NDVI reference for the same scene — so it learns the mapping on identical pixels rather than on scene-level averages.

The result is a per-pixel vigour field, split into percentile management zones, with non-crop pixels segmented out and reported. It runs on CPU in about two seconds per frame.

Specification

Index
Near-NDVI, inferred from RGB
Comparability
Relative within one image
Inference
≈2 seconds per frame, CPU
Inputs
JPG · PNG · GeoTIFF · orthomosaic
Outputs
PNG panels · JSON · GeoTIFF
Not suitable for
Calibrated cross-flight index values

Get a result

Send us one frame.

If you have a recent RGB flight sitting on a drive, send a single frame and we'll return the full result for it — free, no account. It's the fastest way to find out whether this is useful to you.

Returned
Vigour map, zones, canopy mask, summary
Turnaround
Same day, seconds of compute
Cost
Free during onboarding

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