LEDAPS Calibration, Reflectance, Atmospheric Correction Preprocessing Code, Version 2

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The Landsat Ecosystem Disturbance Adaptive Processing System (LEDAPS) was a NASA project to map disturbance, regrowth, and permanent forest conversion across the continent (Masek et al., 2006). The LEDAPS processes Landsat imagery to surface reflectance, using atmospheric correction routines developed for the Terra MODIS instrument (Vermote et al., 1997). The original LEDAPS software was developed at NASA GSFC by Eric Vermote, Nazmi Saleous, Jonathan Kutler, and Robert Wolfe with support from the NASA Terrestrial Ecology program (PI: Jeff Masek). This version, Version 2, was adapted by Dr. Feng Gao, and is a stand-alone version of Landsat 1T calibration, TOA reflectance, cloud masking, and atmospheric correction preprocessing chain. The Version 2 LEDAPS software was designed to work with the standard "web enabled" EROS L1T product for Landsat-5 and Landsat-7, and supports both historic and current EROS metadata models. The LEDAPS code is now part of the National Satellite Land Remote Sensing Data Archive at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, and distributed through Git Hub.

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