Publications by Posts on Lorenzo Busetto Website & Blog
A new RStudio addin to facilitate inserting tables in Rmarkdown documents
In the last months, I started increasingly using Rmd documents for preparing scientific reports, blog posts, etcetera. While I really like the flexibility offered by the system, one thing that I thought could be improved is the support for easily inserting tables. So, “inspired” also by the recent addition of the excellent insert image addin ...
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MODIStsp v. 1.3.4 is out ! Now allowing interactive definition of processing extent!
We are happy to report that a new version of MODIStsp (1.3.4) is on CRAN as of today ! The new version introduces a strongly improved GUI (thanks mainly to @lwasser comments in her review for MODIStsp onboarding on ropensci). The new GUI facilitates the selection of layers to be processed, and allows interactive selection of the processing spatia...
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Bug discovered in MODIStsp!
We are sorry to report that we recently discovered a nasty bug (or rather, a stupid mistake…) in the MODIStsp package. The bug led to improper computation of custom spectral indices in the case that their formula included addition or subtraction operations on reflectance values (e.g., something like \(\frac{(\rho_{NIR}+0.1)}{\rho_{Red}}\), with...
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MODIStsp approved on rOpenSci!
We are happy to report that our MODIStsp package for automatic preprocessing of MODIS time series has been recently approved for being included in the rOpenSci ecosystem of R packages for reproducible science! We wish to thank reviewers Leah Wasser and Jeffrey Hanson for providing really valuable insights during the onboarding review process. We ...
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MODIStsp v. 1.3.8 is out !
A new version of MODIStsp (1.3.8) is on CRAN as of today ! The new version fixes a nasty issue introduced by changes in gdal_buildvrt behaviour in GDAL > 2.3, (https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/3221#comment:5) which caused problems in proper application of scales and offset on MODIS layers – see https://github.com/ropensci/MODIStsp/issues/163 ...
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MODIStsp v. 1.3.9 is out !
A new version of MODIStsp (1.3.9) is on CRAN as of today ! This version: Introduces support for the new MCD12Q2 v006 product and removes support for some v005 product no longer available (https://github.com/ropensci/MODIStsp/issues/170); Fixes a bug preventing correct processing of product MOD14A1 (https://github.com/ropensci/MODIStsp/issues/170...
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MODIStsp v. 1.4.0 is out !
A new version of MODIStsp (1.4.0) is on CRAN as of today ! This version: Switches to use of GDAL3/PROJ6 WKTs for projection representation, using sf::gdal_utils to perform gdalwarp/gdaltranslate instead of gdalUtils on external GDAL; Switches to use of sf for all internal work on vector data; Removes sp, rgdal, rgeos, pacman, gdalUtils dependenc...
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