Healthy leaves reflect green light because they have more chlorophyll
Unhealthy leaves reflect yellow and red light because they have less chlorophyll
Leaves also reflect infrared light
This graph shows the amount of reflectance a typical plant has. The green bar is a healthy plant and the red bar is an unhealthy plant,
If you look closely, a lot of a plant's reflectance is in the invisible or infrared spectrum of light
This is a typical orthomosaic photo
This is a multispectral image
In this picture you can clearly see the healthy and unhealthy areas.