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The goal of `rsat` is to help you handling time-series of satellite images from multiple platforms in a local, efficient, and standardized way. The package provides tools to;

  1. Search (run vignette("rsat1_search", package = "rsat"))

  2. Download (run vignette("rsat2_download", package = "rsat"))

  3. Customize, and (run vignette("rsat3_customize", package = "rsat"))

  4. Process (run vignette("rsat4_process", package = "rsat"))

satellite images from Landsat, MODIS, and Sentinel for a region and time of interest.

Registration

The registration in the following online portals is required to get a full access to satellite images with `rsat`;

  • USGS USGS is the sole science agency for the Department of the Interior of United States. Provide access to Modis Images. More information about EarthData can be found Here.

  • EarthData: A repository of NASA's earth observation data-sets. More information about EarthData can be found here.

  • SciHub, a web service giving access to Copernicus' scientific data hub. Please go here to find more details about the data hub.

For convenience, try to use the same username and password for all of them. To satisfy the criteria of all web services make sure that the username is 4 characters long and includes a period, number or underscore. The password must be 12 character long and should include characters with at least one capital letter, and numbers.

Contributing

If you want to contribute by adding new features or fixing bugs in the package you can do it from our github address: https://github.com/spatialstatisticsupna/rsat Bug report: https://github.com/spatialstatisticsupna/rsat/issues