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Calibrates Landsat DN to TOA reflectance and brightness temperature for Landsat and similar data. For recently-acquired scenes calibration coefficients are extracted from the image metadata; for older scenes the coefficients are derived from:
Chander, Gyanesh, Brian L. Markham, and Dennis L. Helder. "Summary of current radiometric calibration coefficients for Landsat MSS, TM, ETM+, and EO-1 ALI sensors." Remote sensing of environment 113.5 (2009): 893-903.
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