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readMeta

Read Landsat MTL metadata files

Description

Reads metadata and deals with legacy versions of Landsat metadata files and where possible adds missing information (radiometric gain and offset, earth-sun distance).

Usage

readMeta(file, raw = FALSE)

Arguments

`file`	path to Landsat MTL file (...MTL.txt)
`raw`	Logical. If `TRUE` the full raw metadata will be returned as a list. if `FALSE` (the default) all important metadata are homogenized into a standard format (ImageMetaData) and some information is added.

Value

Object of class ImageMetaData

Examples

## Example metadata file (MTL)
mtlFile  <- system.file("external/landsat/LT52240631988227CUB02_MTL.txt", package="RStoolbox")

## Read metadata
metaData <- readMeta(mtlFile)

## Summary
summary(metaData)

RStoolbox

Tools for Remote Sensing Data Analysis

v0.2.6

GPL (>= 3)

Authors

Benjamin Leutner [cre, aut], Ned Horning [aut], Jakob Schwalb-Willmann [aut], Robert J. Hijmans [ctb]

Initial release