Changes in version 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).

                        Changes in version 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

                        Changes in version 1.8.0                        

Internal changes

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

                        Changes in version 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.