landsat (version 1.1.0)

thermalband: Thermal band to temperature conversion.

Description

Converts Landsat thermal band DN (TM or ETM+ band 6-1 and 6-2) to temperature using default coefficients from Chander et al. 2009.

Usage

thermalband(x, band)

Value

Returns a temperature image in the same format as x.

Arguments

x

Landsat band 6 Digital Number (DN) in matrix, data frame or SpatialGridDataFrame format.

band

6 for TM; 61 or 62 for the appropriate ETM+ bands. Any other value will fail.

Author

Sarah Goslee

References

Coefficients from Chander, G., Markham, B.L., Helder, D.L. 2009. Summary of current radiometric calibration coefficients for Landsat MSS, TM, ETM+, and EO-1 ALI sensors. Remote Sensing of Environment 113:893-903.

Examples

	data(nov61)
	nov.temp1 <- thermalband(nov61, 61)
	image(nov.temp1)