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ICESat2VegR: ICESat-2 Data Analysis for Land and Vegetation

Provides tools for downloading, reading, processing, visualizing, and exporting NASA's ICESat-2 ATL03 (Global Geolocated Photon Data) and ATL08 (Land and Vegetation Height) products. Supports photon- and segment-level analysis, spatial sampling, gridding, statistical and machine-learning modeling, and integration with 'Google Earth Engine' (<https://earthengine.google.com/>) for wall-to-wall mapping of vegetation structure and other land attributes.

Version: 0.0.1
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: curl, data.table, sf, fs, getPass, geojsonsf, googledrive, googleCloudStorageR, grDevices, jsonlite, httr2, magrittr, mathjaxr, methods, Rcpp, Rdpack, R6, randomForest, reticulate, terra, dplyr, servr, stringr, xml2
LinkingTo: Rcpp
Suggests: chromote, devtools, ggplot2, grid, gridExtra, hdf5r, htmlwidgets, knitr, leaflet, leafsync, lwgeom, mapview, png, rmarkdown, rstudioapi, signal, stars, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), webshot, viridis, withr
Published: 2026-09-11
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.ICESat2VegR (may not be active yet)
Author: Carlos Alberto Silva [aut, cph, cre], Caio Hamamura [aut, cph], Cesar Alvites [aut, ctb], Alexander J. Gaskins [aut, ctb], Sunil Arya [ctb, cph] (Author of the bundled ANN library (src/)), David Mount [ctb, cph] (Author of the bundled ANN library (src/)), University of Maryland [cph] (Copyright holder of the bundled ANN library (src/)), Chuck Gantz [ctb] (Author of the lat/long to UTM conversion algorithm used in R/utmTools.R), Cole Krehbiel [ctb] (Author of the NASA data download routine adapted in R/ATLAS_dataDownload.R)
Maintainer: Carlos Alberto Silva <c.silva at ufl.edu>
BugReports: https://github.com/carlos-alberto-silva/ICESat2VegR/issues
License: GPL (≥ 3)
URL: https://github.com/carlos-alberto-silva/ICESat2VegR
NeedsCompilation: yes
SystemRequirements: - GDAL (>= 3.0.0) - PROJ (>= 6.0.0) - HDF5 (>= 1.8.13)
Materials: README
CRAN checks: ICESat2VegR results [issues need fixing before 2026-10-02]

Documentation:

Reference manual: ICESat2VegR.html , ICESat2VegR.pdf

Downloads:

Package source: ICESat2VegR_0.0.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: ICESat2VegR_0.0.1.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.
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