New R package: RStoolbox: Tools for Remote Sensing Data Analysis

New R package: RStoolbox: Tools for Remote Sensing Data Analysis

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September 18, 2015

RStoolbox_RemoteSensing_Ecology_Benjamin_LeutnerWe are happy to announce the initial release of our *RStoolbox* package. The package has been developed by our PhD student Benjamin Leutner and will be used extensively in the upcoming book “Remote Sensing and GIS for Ecologists – Using Open Source software“.
RStoolbox provides various tools for remote sensing data analysis and is now available from CRAN:

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RStoolbox

and more details at:

http://bleutner.github.io/RStoolbox/rstbx-docu


 

The main focus of RStoolbox is to provide a set of high-level remote sensing tools for various classification tasks. This includes unsupervised and supervised classification with different classifiers, fractional cover analysis and a spectral angle mapper. Furthermore, several spectral transformations like vegetation indices, principal component analysis or tasseled cap transformation are available as well.

Besides that, we provide a set of data import and pre-processing functions. These include reading and tidying Landsat meta-data, importing ENVI spectral libraries, histogram matching, automatic image co-registration, topographic illumination correction and so on.

Last but not least, RStoolbox ships with two functions dedicated to plotting remote sensing data (*raster* objects) with *ggplot2* including RGB color compositing with various contrast stretching options.

RStoolbox is built on top of the *raster* package. To improve performance some functions use embedded C++ code via the *Rcpp* package.
Moreover, most functions have built-in support for parallel processing, which is activated by running raster::beginCluster() beforehand.

 

RStoolbox is hosted at www.github.com/bleutner/RStoolbox

For a more details, including executed examples, please see

http://bleutner.github.io/RStoolbox/rstbx-docu

 

We sincerely hope that this package may be helpful for some people and are looking forward to any feedback, suggestions and bug reports.

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