R-Code to Map the Area Under the Curve From Reflectance Values Using Multispectral Satellite Image

You must read the multispectral image data into R, extract the reflectance values for a particular band, perform a calculation on each pixel and map the results, then save the map as a TIFF file.

Here is some code that demonstrates how to do this:

library(raster)
library(ggplot2)
library(ggmap)

# Load the TIFF image (Landsat or Sentinel or any other satellite image)
raster_image <- brick("YourMultispectral_image.tif")

# Extract a specific band
band_data <- extract(raster_image, 1)

# Create a wavelength vector
wavelength_vector <- seq(400, 700, by = 10)

# Define the reflectance function
# The reflectance function uses the approx function to interpolate the reflectance values at the desired wavelength values 
reflectance_function <- function(x) {
  y <- approx(wavelength_vector, x, xout = x)$y
  return(y)
}

# Calculate the area under the curve for each pixel
results <- calc(band_data, fun = function(x) {
  integrate(reflectance_function, min(wavelength_vector), max(wavelength_vector), x = x)$value
})

# Plot the results on a spatial map
# The extent of the raster image is used to define the location of the map, and the zoom level is set to 10
ggmap(get_map(location = extent(raster_image), zoom = 10)) +
  geom_raster(data = as.data.frame(results),
              aes(x = x, y = y, fill = layer)) +
  scale_fill_gradient(low = "blue", high = "red") +
  ggtitle("Spatial Map of Area under the Curve of Reflectance Values") +
  xlab("Longitude") +
  ylab("Latitude")

# Save the result as a TIFF file
writeRaster(results, filename = "area_under_the_curve_map.tif", format = "GTiff", overwrite = TRUE)

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