MODIStsp v1.2.1
MODIStsp v 1.2.1 Release Notes
v1.2.1 was released on 20/04/2016
Major Changes
- Modified format of "R" output time series from rts objects to RasterStack objects with temporal information added in the
"z" attribute via setZ() - Major changes/improvements in MODIStsp_extract function:
- Use of plain rasterstack with "z" attribute instead than rasterstackts
- Use of gdal_rasterize (gdalUtils) instead of rasterize (rgdal) to improve speed. Temporary shapes and rasters necessay are saved in "R" temporary folder and removed automatically
- Fixed bugs on functionality for point/lines shapefiles, according to what specified by the "small" and "small_method" parameters
- Added functionality for retrieving data for small polygons
- Added out_format selection - xts or plain data.frame
- Added possibility to use a shp filename as input directly
- Added conformity checks on inputs
- Added functionality to run without specifying start and end dates
- Added id_field parameter for choosing which column of the input SP object should be used for "naming" the columns of the output
- Removed possibility to use "complex" resampling methods when reprojecting (e.g., bilinear, cubic, etc.) to avoid incorrect resampling on categorical variables and "contamination" of good pixels' data.
Minor Changes
- Changed the input method for starting and ending dates selection in the GUI. Now a text field is used
- Added functionaluty for writing data ignore value on ENVI files
- Removed automatic deletion of XML files created by writeRaster to keep metadata information
- Changed names of products in the GUI for products with both TERRA and AQUA dataset to MD09A1, MD13Q1, etc...
- Modified code syntax to satisfy R code styling guidelines
- Modified roxygen parameters so that only required functions are imported from imported packages
- Updated and corrected the list of dependencies
- Updated required "R" version to 3.2, and minimum versions for dependent packages to current versions.
- Added Welcome message
- Updated links to LPDAAC product description pages
- Changed all "print" and "cat" calls to show messages/warnings to "message" or "warning" to allow easy disabling MODIStsp verbose messages
- Using "R" tempfile/tempdir to save vrt files
Bug Fixes
- Corrected a bug that threw an error in case incorrect bounding box specified