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 # ThermalImage_processing
 
+Scripts to process thermal images taken from handheld thermal cameras. 
+1. rawTempExtraction.R  - reads the original JPEG file and output RAW temperature as  .txt file
+2. thresholding.m       - for thresholding canopy pixels in ground thermal images
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