How to open a Higher Level Landsat image with ENVI 5.2?

Question

A mistake every time I try to open the .MTL archive. The error that appears says "File does not appear to be a valid TIFF file". The archive's size it's smaller than it should be. Is there's any plugin to open correctly the images?

Answer 1

Landsat L1 product metadata is contained in .MTL archive, L1 level are Landsat products in DN or TOA reflectance. Higher Level Landsat Image in BOA reflectance has another kind of metadata structure. The metada is located in .xml archive.

Envi 5.2 open and stack data from .MTL metadata, but it hasn't support for .xml metadata structure. Is a blog of Harris Geospatial, there is a mention of a plugin automatizing open and layer stacking from .xml file, but there isn't in extensions library from Harris Geospatial portal.

So you have three options:

1. Open and stack it manually.
2. Create an IDL script to do it.
3. Open .xml file in other software that supports that kind of metadata and export the multi-raster file.