function used to parse the XML file used to store the characteristics of
MODIS Land Products and store them in the "prod_opts" data frame
Usage
MODIStsp_read_xml(prodopts_file, xml_file)
Arguments
- prodopts_file
string filename of the RData in which to store the data
parsed from the XML file
- xml_file
string filename of the XML file containing the MODIS products
characteristics
Value
NULL - retrieved data are stored in the specified RData file
Details
The function parses the XML file product by product, stores data in a data frame
and saves the data frame within the "MODIStsp_previous" RData file as a list of lists
Author
Lorenzo Busetto, phD (2014-2017)
Luigi Ranghetti, phD (2015)