Radiometric and Topographic Correction of Satellite Imagery

Processing of Landsat or other multispectral satellite imagery. Includes relative normalization, image-based radiometric correction, and topographic correction options. The original package description was published as Goslee (2011) , and details of the topographic corrections in Goslee (2012) .


landsat R package

Processing of Landsat or other multispectral satellite imagery. Includes relative normalization, image-based radiometric correction, and topographic correction options.

This package was initially developed many years ago, before Landsat 8, and before extensive facilities were available for processing Landsat data elsewhere.

As of December 2019, I've added Landsat 8 OLI coefficients to the tasseled cap transform function tasscap, and to the DOS function.

Most of my remote sensing work has moved to other tools, but I do think adding raster package capability to this package might be useful.

August 2023: Minor update to remove dependency on the retiring rgdal package.

Reference manual

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install.packages("landsat")

1.1.2 by Sarah Goslee, 3 years ago


Report a bug at https://github.com/phiala/landsat/issues


Browse source code at https://github.com/cran/landsat


Authors: Sarah Goslee [aut, cre]


Documentation:   PDF Manual  


GPL (>= 2) license


Imports stats, graphics, methods, lmodel2, mgcv

Depends on sp

Suggests sf


See at CRAN