**A. Additional material**

Links to the code are available upon request. Additional material 1. Characteristics of Sentinel-2A bands.


Additional material 2. The spectral indices used. The first row is the supporting or reference data.

Additional material 3. Binarized indices and thresholds defined.

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Additional material 4. Direction and magnitude of change as proposed by Kuzera et al. (2005).

Additional material 5a. Averaged MSDI patterns of MSAVI2.

Additional material 5b. Averaged MSDI patterns for PVR, PBI and GVMI.

Additional material 5c. Averaged MSDI patterns for IREIP1, mCRIG and LWCI.

Additional material 5d. Averaged MSDI patterns for MARI, SRPI and PSRI.

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Additional material 6. Spatial autoregression sample plots of aMSDI for PVR (left) and MSAVI2 increase patterns (right). red square = spatial correlation targeted, for n = 1544 pixels.
