Rnightlights: Satellite Nightlight Data Extraction

Extracts raster and zonal statistics from satellite nightlight rasters downloaded from the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (<http://www.noaa.gov>) free data repositories. Both the DMSP-OLS annual and SNPP-VIIRS monthly nightlight raster data are supported. Satellite nightlight raster tiles are downloaded and cropped to the country boundaries using shapefiles from the GADM database of Global Administrative Areas (<http://gadm.org>). Zonal statistics are then calculated at the lowest administrative boundary for the selected country and cached locally for future retrieval. Finally, a simple data explorer/browser is included that allows one to visualize the cached data e.g. graphing, mapping and clustering regional data.

Version: 0.2.3
Imports: cleangeo, compiler, data.table, doSNOW, dplyr, ff, ffbase, foreach, lubridate, methods, raster, readr, reshape2, rgdal, rgeos, R.utils, rvest, rworldmap, settings, snow, sp, stats, stringr, utils, xml2
Suggests: dendextend, DT, gdalUtils, ggdendro, ggplot2, leaflet, plotly, RColorBrewer, shiny, shinydashboard, testthat
Published: 2018-10-13
Author: Christopher Njuguna [aut, cre, cph]
Maintainer: Christopher Njuguna <chris.njuguna at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/chrisvwn/Rnightlights/issues
License: GPL-3
URL: https://github.com/chrisvwn/Rnightlights
NeedsCompilation: no
SystemRequirements: aria2, curl, gdal, wget
CRAN checks: Rnightlights results

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Reference manual: Rnightlights.pdf
Package source: Rnightlights_0.2.3.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: Rnightlights_0.2.3.zip, r-release: Rnightlights_0.2.3.zip, r-oldrel: Rnightlights_0.2.3.zip
OS X binaries: r-release: Rnightlights_0.2.3.tgz, r-oldrel: Rnightlights_0.2.3.tgz
Old sources: Rnightlights archive

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