New package > RStoolbox: Remote Sensing Data Analysis in R
Dear list members,
We are happy to announce the initial release of our *RStoolbox* package.
RStoolbox provides various tools for remote sensing data analysis and is
now available from CRAN:
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RStoolbox
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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Benjamin Leutner
Ned Horning
------------------------------------------------- Benjamin Leutner M.Sc. Julius-Maximilians-Universit?t W?rzburg Institut f?r Geographie und Geologie Lehrstuhl f?r Fernerkundung Campus Hubland Nord -86- 97074 W?rzburg --- Tel: +49-(0)931-31 89594 Fax: +49-(0)931-31 89594-0 eMail: benjamin.leutner at uni-wuerzburg.de Web: http://www.fernerkundung.uni-wuerzburg.de