GeoThinneR: Efficient Spatial Thinning of Species Occurrences

Provides efficient geospatial thinning algorithms to reduce the density of coordinate data while maintaining spatial relationships. Implements K-D Tree and brute-force distance-based thinning, as well as grid-based and precision-based thinning methods. For more information on the methods, see Elseberg et al. (2012) <https://hdl.handle.net/10446/86202>.

Package details

AuthorJorge Mestre-Tomás [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8983-3417>)
MaintainerJorge Mestre-Tomás <jorge.mestre.tomas@csic.es>
LicenseMIT + file LICENSE
Version2.1.0
URL https://github.com/jmestret/GeoThinneR https://jmestret.github.io/GeoThinneR/
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("GeoThinneR")

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