readMeta: Read Landsat MTL metadata files

In RStoolbox: Remote Sensing Data Analysis

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)

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