NEWS

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PEcAn.data.remote 1.9.1

Added

• New function extract_thredds_nc collects data from a Thredds URL into a single dataframe (#2458).
• New function get_site_info looks up in the BETY database all sites found in a settings object (#2458).
• new function merge_image_tiles stitches multiple hdf or tif files into a larger spatial image (#3573, #3617).
• New function gdal_conversion provides an R interface to format conversion utilities provided by the GDAL library (#3585, #3588).

Changed

• MODIS_LAI_prep gains two arguments (#3565):
  • skip_download (with default FALSE) to work offline from an existing file named "LAI.csv".
  • boundary (with default NULL, ie no effect) to set upper and lower quantiles for trimming LAI data
• download.thredds.AGB renamed to download.thredds (#2458).
• GEDI_AGB_prep argument credential.folder (with default "~") renamed to credential_path (with default "~/.netrc") (#3540).
• GEDI_AGB_prep will use existing local files if present rather than re-download them (#3572).
• All *DAAC functions now take argument credential_path, which should be set to the path to a valid .netrc file (#3572).
• Removed unused internal function grid2netcdf (#2758, @AMBRA7592).

PEcAn.data.remote 1.9.0

• Refactored GEDI, LAI, and SMAP workflows for more efficient parallel processing
• Added GEDI_L4A* functions to work with footprint-level GEDI biomass data

PEcAn.data.remote 1.8.0

Internal changes

• call_MODIS now checks QC flags using base R functions, and therefore no longer depends on the binaryLogic package.

PEcAn.data.remote 1.7.1

• All changes in 1.7.1 and earlier were recorded in a single file for all of the PEcAn packages; please see https://github.com/PecanProject/pecan/blob/v1.7.1/CHANGELOG.md for details.