TMunpackr

TMunpacker automatically decompress, stacks, reprojects, produces tasseled cap transformations, and derives a cloud mask from Fmask. It requires USGS CRD TM and ETM+ image products downloaded from USGS Earth Explorer as input. It locates these files in targz folder in the user-provided scene directory path. For each compressed image file it creates a new temporary folder where compressed images in the targz folder are decompressed to. The compressed CDR product includes LEDAPS surface reflectance image bands and cloud masks. TMunpackr decompresses the CDR product, stacks image bands 1-5 and 7 and reprojects the image stack. The included Fmask cloud mask is reclassified to include only values 0 and 1 representing obscured and clear-view pixel designations. This means that original values for cloud, cloud shadow, snow, and no observation are all assigned the value 0 while clear land and clear water are assigned the value 1. Fmask reclassication is done to match the MSS cloud mask produced by MSScvm and to allow efficient mask application during the compositing process (miXel). The cloud mask is reprojected in the same way as the corresponding image stack. Finally, the tasseled cap transformation is applied to the surface reflectance image stack to produce tasseled cap brightness, greenness, and wetness spectral indices. The final image stack, image ancillary data, cloud mask, and tasseled cap stack are renamed and placed in a subdirectoy to the scene directory called images where they are further divided into folders by year.