Natural vs Color Infrared imagery

CIR imagery can be difficult to interpret mainly because the colors are unnatural to us relative to what we see normally. In some cases it is exactly opposite of what we are used to, and this makes typical areas more difficult to identify. But there is also an advantage to CIR imagery, it allows us to identify features we could not normally see with the naked eye. This is advantageous to identifying vegetation and also in determining the health of vegetation.