Further resources

Helpful EO packages in R

Base & Workflow packages

remotes (EO-workflwos, more info)

future.apply (parallel processing for complex data), sf (simple feature standards for vector data e.g. points, lines, polygones, basis for boarders, AOIs, ect., more info)

dplyr (grammar of data manipulation for tabular data, attribute tables, pixel statistics, etc, more info)

rnaturalearth (hold an facilitate interaction with natural earth vector map data, providing map data, more info)

lubridate (facilitates work with date and time information, essential for time series, more info)

keyring (manages access data securely via the operating system keychain system, e.g. for API keys from EO services, more info)

progressr (uniform system for progress indicatoes, displays progress during long EO calculations, more info)

tidyverse (collection from ggplot2, dplyr, tidyr, readr, purr, etc.: provides a uniform, „tidy“ data ecosystem that many EO workflows fit well, more info)

devtools (helps with developping, testing, and installing R packages; useful if you your own EO helper packages or maintain forks, more info)

Vector & Raster Data

terra (raster and spatial raster library, for complex raster data, multi-band EO data, resampling, overlays, etc., more info)

stars (handles grids and general multidimensional arrays (x, y, time, band) as „spatio temporal arrays“; good for netCDF and data cubes, more info)

gdalcubes (builds spatio-temporal data cubes from EO grids (e.g. Sentinel time series) and enables efficient aggregation and analysis, more info)

Geostatistics, statistics, ML

gstat (gesostatistical models (variograms, kriging, simulation) for continuous variables, e.g. interpolation of EO-based indices, more info)

spatstat (comprehensive tools for spatial point analysis; usable for EO-derived point data (e.g. detection, events, more info)

randomForest (implements random forest models; classic for land cover classification and pixel-based mapping from EO features, more info)

GIS engines and special tools

RSAGA (interface to SAGA GIS; enables terrain analysis, hydrology, morphometry, etc. from R on EO derivates, more info)

dggridR (generates discrete global grids (e.g. hexagonal grids) and supports mapping/ aggregation on global grids; useful for global EO monitoring, more info)

GDAMTools (tools related to GADM boundary data, often used for aggregating EO data by administrative region, more info)

Geodata (provides globally available raster and vector data (e.g. cliamte, elevation models, land cover) for easy download, more info)

giscoR (access to Eurostat GISCO geodata(boundaries, grids, regions) with clean meadata structure; typical context layer for EO analyses in Europe, more info)

Visualilzation

leaflet (bindings to the Leaflet JavaScript library for interactive web maps, including raster and vector overlays for EO products, more info)

tamp (thematic mapping framework for static and interactive maps, easily integrated with sf/stars/terra, [more info]/https://cran.r-project.org/package=tmap))

tidyterra (support package for better utilization of terra objects with ggplot2/tidyverse (e.g. geom_spatraster(), geom_spatvector(), more info)

EO-specific data access packages

ecmwfr ((client for ECMWF API/ Climate Data Store, enables download of ERA5 & other re-analysis/ models, more info)