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topic: Analysis of Spatial Data
maintainer: Roger Bivand, Jakub Nowosad
email: [email protected], [email protected]
version: 2025-09-11
version: 2025-10-26
source: https://github.com/cran-task-views/Spatial/
---

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- [Reading and writing spatial data - GIS software connectors](#reading-and-writing-spatial-data---gis-software-connectors)
- [Specific geospatial data sources of interest](#specific-geospatial-data-sources-of-interest)
- [Interfaces to Spatial Web-Services](#interfaces-to-spatial-web-services)
- [Remote sensing](#remote-sensing)
- [Handling spatial data](#handling-spatial-data)
- [Data cleaning](#data-cleaning)
- [Data processing - general](#data-processing---general)
- [Data processing - specific](#data-processing---specific)
- [Remote sensing](#remote-sensing)
- [Spatial sampling](#spatial-sampling)
- [Visualizing spatial data](#visualizing-spatial-data)
- [Base visualization packages](#base-visualization-packages)
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[GeoNetwork](https://geonetwork-opensource.org/) legacy API,
an open source catalogue for managing geographic metadata.

### Remote sensing

- `r pkg("rstac")` provides functions to access, search and download
spacetime earth observation data via [SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs](https://stacspec.org).
This package supports the version 1.0.0 (and older) of the
[STAC specification](https://github.com/radiantearth/stac-spec).
- The `r pkg("rsi")` package provides an interface to the
[Awesome Spectral Indices](https://github.com/awesome-spectral-indices/awesome-spectral-indices)
project. It also provides functions to download, mask, and composite data
from [SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs](https://stacspec.org), with a particular
focus on satellite imagery.
- The `r pkg("RStoolbox")` is a remote sensing toolbox covering many aspects
including data import, pre-processing, data analysis, image classification
and graphical display.
- The `r pkg("sits")` is an end-to-end toolkit for land use and land cover
classification using big Earth observation data, based on machine learning
methods applied to satellite image data cubes.
- The `r pkg("landsat")` package with accompanying
[JSS paper](http://www.jstatsoft.org/v43/i04) provides tools for exploring
and developing correction tools for remote sensing data.
- `r github("rspatial/luna")` has tools for acquiring and processing satellite
remote sensing data from NASA's LANDSAT and MODIS data sources.
`r pkg("MODISTools")` also provides an interface to the
[MODIS Land Products Subsets](https://modis.ornl.gov/data/modis_webservice.html)
web services.
`r pkg("modisfast")`, on its side, provides an interface to some MODIS, VIIRS
and GPM [OPeNDAP](https://www.opendap.org/) servers, enabling to subset the datacubes
directly at the download phase.
- The `r pkg("CDSE")` provides the interface to the 'Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem'
API (<https://dataspace.copernicus.eu/analyse/apis/sentinel-hub>), mainly for searching
the catalogue of available data from Copernicus Sentinel missions and obtaining the
images for the area of interest based on selected spectral bands.
- The `r pkg("rsat")` is designed for automatically downloading, pre-processing, and
managing time series of satellite imagery from multiple platforms (i.e., Landsat,
Sentinel and MODIS).
- `r pkg("rgee")` is an [Earth Engine](https://earthengine.google.com/)
client library for R. All of the 'Earth Engine' API classes, modules,
and functions are made available. Additional functions implemented include
importing (exporting) of Earth Engine spatial objects,
extraction of time series, interactive map display,
assets management interface, and metadata display.
- The `r pkg("openeo")` is an R client package that allows users to interact with
openEO-compliant back-ends (<https://openeo.org/>) for processing Earth observation
data (e.g., services offered by European Space Agency or VITO Remote Sensing).
It enables to define and execute workflows remotely on cloud infrastructures
without having to download large amounts of data locally.

Handling spatial data
---------------------

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- The `r pkg("exactextractr")` for fast and accurate summary of raster values
on polygonal areas (known as zonal statistics).

### Remote sensing

- `r pkg("rstac")` provides functions to access, search and download
spacetime earth observation data via [SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs](https://stacspec.org).
This package supports the version 1.0.0 (and older) of the
[STAC specification](https://github.com/radiantearth/stac-spec).
- The `r pkg("rsi")` package provides an interface to the
[Awesome Spectral Indices](https://github.com/awesome-spectral-indices/awesome-spectral-indices)
project. It also provides functions to download, mask, and composite data
from [SpatioTemporal Asset Catalogs](https://stacspec.org), with a particular
focus on satellite imagery.
- The `r pkg("RStoolbox")` is a remote sensing toolbox covering many aspects
including data import, pre-processing, data analysis, image classification
and graphical display.
- The `r pkg("sits")` is an end-to-end toolkit for land use and land cover
classification using big Earth observation data, based on machine learning
methods applied to satellite image data cubes.
- The `r pkg("landsat")` package with accompanying
[JSS paper](http://www.jstatsoft.org/v43/i04) provides tools for exploring
and developing correction tools for remote sensing data.
- `r github("rspatial/luna")` has tools for acquiring and processing satellite
remote sensing data from NASA's LANDSAT and MODIS data sources.
`r pkg("MODISTools")` also provides an interface to the
[MODIS Land Products Subsets](https://modis.ornl.gov/data/modis_webservice.html)
web services.
`r pkg("modisfast")`, on its side, provides an interface to some MODIS, VIIRS
and GPM [OPeNDAP](https://www.opendap.org/) servers, enabling to subset the datacubes
directly at the download phase.
- The `r pkg("CDSE")` provides the interface to the 'Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem'
API (<https://dataspace.copernicus.eu/analyse/apis/sentinel-hub>), mainly for searching
the catalogue of available data from Copernicus Sentinel missions and obtaining the
images for the area of interest based on selected spectral bands.
- The `r pkg("rsat")` is designed for automatically downloading, pre-processing, and
managing time series of satellite imagery from multiple platforms (i.e., Landsat,
Sentinel and MODIS).
- `r pkg("rgee")` is an [Earth Engine](https://earthengine.google.com/)
client library for R. All of the 'Earth Engine' API classes, modules,
and functions are made available. Additional functions implemented include
importing (exporting) of Earth Engine spatial objects,
extraction of time series, interactive map display,
assets management interface, and metadata display.
- The `r pkg("openeo")` is an R client package that allows users to interact with
openEO-compliant back-ends (<https://openeo.org/>) for processing Earth observation
data (e.g., services offered by European Space Agency or VITO Remote Sensing).
It enables to define and execute workflows remotely on cloud infrastructures
without having to download large amounts of data locally.

### Spatial sampling

- `r pkg("spsurvey")` provides functions to select generalized
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