The present invention relates to a method of calculating a Topography Adjusted Vegetation Index (TAVI) based on a band ratio model and a solar altitude angle. The method includes the folio wing steps: obtaining the apparent reflectance data of a remote sensing image through image preprocessing, analyzing the quality of the image and numerical distribution, calculating a Shadow Vegetation Index (SVI), and constructing a TAVI combinational algorithm:;TAVI=BirBr+f(Δ)·1Br,;calculating an adjustment factor f (Δ) with the solar altitude angle, and finally obtaining anti-topographic effect TAVI vegetation information. The TAVI in the present invention is composed of two band ratio submodels RVI and SVI, the denominators of both of which are red band data of a remote sensing image, and the adjustment factor f(Δ), which is calculated by a solar altitude angle as a parameter with a sensor factor applied, has great physical significance. The TAVI calculation method does not need digital elevation model (DEM) data
