NEWS.md

In mapme.biodiversity: Efficient Monitoring of Global Biodiversity Portfolios

mapme.biodiversity 0.9.4

General

• get_biodiversity_intactness_index(), get_iucn(), and get_key_biodiversity_areas() now use spds_exists() to check if input files exist
• get_chelsa() now supports precipitation layers for 2019
• changes bucket URL for get_chelsa() to https://os.zhdk.cloud.switch.ch/chelsav2/GLOBAL/monthly/pr
• spds_exist() and make_footprints() now use normalizePath() allowing better handling of relative file paths

Internal

• the sf_col attribute value is now retained throughout the portfolio checks and chunking routines

• .raster_bbox() now only uses the cornerCoordinates output from gdalinfo to derive a bounding box (385)

• bounding boxes for raster and vector resources are now derived via st_as_sfc(st_bbox(x)) to ensure that they are oriented correctly when using S2 (377 and 385)

mapme.biodiversity 0.9.3

Bug fixes

• get_nasa_srtm() now uses GDAL's VSI path option pc_url_signing=yes to sign URLs from Microsoft Planetary Computer (383)

Internal

• test for .read_vector() now copies input GPKG to a directory with write permissions to avoid CRAN check failures when included in a read only directory

mapme.biodiversity 0.9.2

General

• new resources:
  • get_acled()
• new indicators:
  • calc_fatalities_acled()
  • calc_fatalities_ucdp() (renamed)
  • calc_exposed_population_acled()
  • calc_exposed_population_ucdp() (renamed)
• calc_fatalities_ucdp() now returns a sparse timeseries, e.g. asset-months with now fatalities are omitted.

Bug fixes

• fixes portfolio_wide() throwing an error when single assets with NULL values are present
• calc_mangroves_area() returned NULL if invalid geometries were encountered Now it tries to repair geometries and return the area of valid geometries (375)

Internal

• .get_intersection() now assumes both x and tindex to be represented by oriented rings on the sphere (378)

mapme.biodiversity 0.9.1

General

• new resources:
  • get_accessibility_2000() (365, @fBedecarrats)
• new indicators:
  • calc_traveltime_2000() (365, @fBedecarrats)

Internal

• adjusts test for get_gsw_timseries() and calc_gsw_timeseries() to write to temporal directory of the R session to fix CRAN errors (370, @karpfen)

mapme.biodiversity 0.9.0

General

• prep_resources() received additional argument mode to get control over the reading mode (e.g. portfolio or asset)

• resources based on WorldClim now support selecting the spatial resolution and cover the historical timeseries starting from 1960 (302)

• assets are now chunked into sub-components prior to indicator calculation thus parallelization now is applied to a single level (322)

• chunk_size now is properly set to 100,000 ha as per documentation (before it was set to 10,000 ha) (324)

• setting chunk_size=NULL is now allowed and skips chunking (331)

• treecover indicators now trough a message if landscapemetrics is not installed (325)

• setting outdir via mapme_options() now probes the destination by trying to write a GTiff file and errors if unsuccessful (335)

• code previously using httr now uses httr2 (330)

• new resources:

  • get_iucn() (359)
  • get_chelsa() (318)
  • get_ipbes_biomes() (345)
  • get_humanfootprint() (341)
  • get_gsw_time_series() (354, @karpfen)
  • get_key_biodiversity_areas() (349, @karpfen)
  • get_biodiversity_intactness_index() (351, @karpfen)
  • get_vul_carbon(), get_man_carbon(), and get_irr_carbon() (339)

• new indicators:

  • calc_slope() (355, @fBedecarrats)
  • calc_ipbes_biomes() (345)
  • calc_humanfootprint() (341)
  • calc_gsw_time_series() (354, @karpfen)
  • calc_species_richness() (359)
  • calc_exposed_population() (321)
  • calc_precipitation_chelsa() (318)
  • calc_key_biodiversity_area() (349, @karpfen)
  • calc_biodiversity_intactness_index() (351, @karpfen)
  • calc_vul_carbon(), calc_man_carbon(), and calc_irr_carbon() (339)

Bug fixes

• fixes transforming asset to the CRS of raster dataset in calc_deforestation_drivers() (300)
• write_portfolio() now drops indicators with only NULL values instead of throwing an error (303)
• get_ucdp_ged() now adds SRS infos to the footprints object (313)
• uses binary writing mode for worldpop resource on Windows (319)

Internal

• .check_portfolio() now checks if assetid has unique values and only overrides them if this in not the case (305)
• .read_raster() now reads values into memory and removes VRT files on-exit (311)
• .fetch_resources() now honours both creation and opening options (315)
• httr calls are replaced with the respective httr2 equivalents (329)

mapme.biodiversity 0.8.0

General

• updates gfw_lossyear resource to v20240402 which entails emission data between 2000 - 2023
• removes the nasa_firms resource and associated active_fire_counts indicator
• adds mcd64a1 resource and burned_area indicator
• mapme.biodiveristy now leverages GDAL for data I/O meaning that all GDAL readable source data sets and writable destinations are now supported
• README.md now includes a section on how to set up cloud-storages to use as a destination for resource data
• The quickstart vignette now uses GFW data as example data
• chunking is now applied based on the area of an assets bounding box instead of its own area
• write_portfolio() now again serializes to a two-table GeoPackage and re-introduces read_portfolio() (294)
• datetime column values are now encoded as POSIXct

Internal

• exports make_footprints() to ease the process of creating footprints for resource functions
• exports spds_exists() for resource function to check if a data source is exists
• get_*() functions are now required to return footprint objects indicating the spatial extent of each elements and pointing towards a GDAL readable data source in the source column
• in case a user-specified destination is found, the package now uses gdal_translate to write data from source to destination
• tests for long-running examples and tests are skipped on GA and CRAN
• fixes a bug in checking if a portfolio inherits from tbl_df

mapme.biodiversity 0.7.0

Bug fixes

• fixes bug with wrong tile paths returned by get_gfw_emissions()

Breaking changes

• introduces a standardized output format for indicators, see 240 for more information
• get_chirps() now allows to specify the years for which to download CHIRPS resources
• calc_precipitation_chirps() now only returns precipitation sums
• deprecation of indicator active_fire_properties since resources can now be retrieved using prep_resources() (see below)

General

• exports prep_resources() to prepare resources for single assets
• exports portfolio_long() and portfolio_wide() to automatically unnest indicator columns and change the data layout to either long or wide
• changes the behaviour of write_portfolio() to serialize portfolios to GDAL supported spatial formats in either long or wide format and deprecates read_portfolio()
• introduces option chunk_size to mapme_options() to control the size for which polygons are split and processed in chunks
• allows assets of type 'MULTIPOLYGON' and automatically combines the results based on an aggregation function
• indicator examples now use portfolio_long() instead of tidyr::unnest()

Internal

• indicator functions must now return tibbles with columns named datetime, variable, unit and value
• inner-level indicator functions must now specify a statistic for aggregation of chunks
• chirps and nasa_grace resources updated
• check for internet connectivity can now be disabled via environment variable mapme_check_connection (262)
• gfw_treecover and gfw_lossyear resources updated to v1.11 (277, @fBedecarrats)
• GFW indicators now automatically detect the maximum years based on the gfw_lossyear layer (273)
• drops curl, stringr, and tidyselect as dependencies
• moves progressr and rvest from Imports to Suggests
• drops SPEI from Suggests

mapme.biodiversity 0.6.0

Breaking changes

• introduces a new UI based on closures for resources and indicators, see 240 for more information

General

• improves output of available_resources() and available_indicators()
• introduces mapme_options() to add fine-control of the packages behaviour
• deprecates init_portfolio() in favour of mapme_options()
• exports helper functions for third parties to extend the package for custom resources and indicators:
  • check_available_years()
  • check_namespace()
  • download_or_skip()
  • check_engine()
  • check_stats()
  • select_engine()
  • make_global_grid()
  • unzip_and_remove()

New features

• added Global Surface Water resources and respective indicators (235, @karpfen)

Internal

• removed st_make_valid() from .read_vector().

mapme.biodiversity 0.5.0

General

• Quickstart vignette uses the WorldPop resource instead of CHIRPS, not relying on a working internet connection (230).

New features

• GFW resources and indicators include latest GFC-2022-v1.10 version (203).
• Raster resources with a CRS different from WGS84 are now supported (213).

Breaking changes

• The argument add_resources to init_portfolio() is deprecated. This means that get_resources() has to be run in every new R session to make resource available for further processing (219).

• Rasters are now cropped to the spatial extent of an asset with setting snap="out", thus delivering a slightly bigger extent (212).

• Speed improvements for GFW indicators (up to x10 for larger rasters) now require R package exactextractr to be installed. Also, it is advised to have the R package landscapemetrics installed to gain the full computation speed improvement.

Bug Fixes

• calc_indicators() checks for 0-length tibbles (196, 199, 215).
• Fix bug with reading rasters with temporal dimensions (209).
• All raster cells touching a polygon are now returned (208).

Internal

• .read_raster_source() now uses a simplified logic to cover all cases (e.g. single tiles, tiled rasters with and without temporal dimension, single temporal rasters) (211).
• Rasters are cropped using snap="out" by default (212).
• .read_raster_source() now projects assets in case their CRS differs from the portfolio (213).
• tile indices for raster resources are now appended to the portfolio attributes as sf objects instead of being written to disk (219).
• .read_raster_source() now applies a precision round-trip of 5 decimal point to match rasters with slight changes in their spatial extent (217).
• register_resource() and register_indicator() now issue warnings for resources/indicators with names already registered and overwrites them (220).

mapme.biodiversity 0.4.0

New features

• added new resource called ucdp_ged providing a database of violent conflict from 1989 to today

• added a new indicator called fatalities aggregating number of deaths by type of conflict on a monthly time scale based on the ucdp_ged resource.

• Added a new resource called fritz_et_al providing a raster layer of deforestation

• added a new resource called fritz_et_al providing a raster layer of deforestation drivers in tropical forests based on Fritz et al. (2022)

• added a new indicator called deforestation_drivers using the fritz_et_al resource to obtain information on the absolute and relative area driving forest losses in assets for the period 2008-2019

• added two new exported functions register_resource() and register_indicator() which allow users to register custom functions for resources/indicators

• added a new vignette for the web-version of the package only informing about how to obtain wide-output from indicators

• added a new vignette for the web-version for a custom analysis of the NASA FIRMS resource in the example section

• added the data for years 2017-2020 to the Global Mangrove Watch resource

Breaking changes

• Changed the parallel backend to the future package. Parallel processing is now implemented by furrr::future_map() on the asset level within the calc_indicators() function. User code is now required to set up a plan() to enable parallel processing. The function call needs to be wrapped on the user side with progressr::with_progress() to show a progress bar.

• mapme.biodiversity no longer sets terra's temporal directory for you. Instead you have to call terra::terraOptions() manually

Bug Fixes

• esalandcover indicator now returns the value per each land cover class exactly once (177)

Internal

• disabled running examples on CRAN

• disabled tests for get_* functions on CRAN

• terra engines now use get() to resolve the requested zonal statistic function

• applying tidyverse coding style to existing code (156, @karpfen)

• extensive re-factoring of vector-raster zonal statistic engines (150)

• extensive re-writing of testing infrastructure for indicator functions omitting the usage of snapshot tests as far as possible (142)

• rundir and todisk arguments removed from indicator functions since they were of no practical use

• instead of a resource and indicator backlog, resources and indicators are now registered to .pkgenv and queried there during runtime. This also allows users to register custom resources/indicator functions

• removed deprecation warnings for old resource/indicator name

mapme.biodiversity 0.3.0

Breaking changes

• on MacOS s2-based calculations are now enabled so users can expect the package to return numerically equivalent results on any operating system (131)

• the online source for the nasa_srtm resource shows an expired SSL certificate since November 2022. The get_resources() function now includes an error and instructions how to disable SSL certification at a users own risk. The websites maintainers have been contacted and asked to renew the certification. (131)

New features

• GFW resources are now updated to use the latest version allowing analysis for the additional year of 2021 (123, @fBedecarrats)

• GFW indicators now accept numeric min_size argument allowing to specify fractional covers (110)

• fire indicators now allow the simultaneous calculation of indicators based on MODIS and VIIRS. Before users had to chose between one of the instruments for each analysis (126)

Bug fixes

• case when one or multiple assets return NA instead of a tibble is now properly tested and handled (101)

• Rasters are no longer temporary written to disk to omit a bug caused by applying mask/classify to an already existing raster file (108, @Jo-Schie)

• Bug with soilproperties set to NA caused by the function to return a data.frame instead of a tibble was fixed (116)

• both, treecoverloss_emissions and treecover_area_and_emissions now return 0 instead of NaN for observation years where now forest loss occurred (120)

Internal

• .make_global_grid() now specifies the CRS when constructing the bounding box and returns the grid in the specified CRS instead of Lat/Lon (113)

• .calc_active_fire_properties now uses st_coordinates to retrieve locations of fires (119, @DavisVaughan)

• tests for MacOS have been re-enabled (131)

• tests for downloading nasa_srtm resource are skipped because the SSL certificate of the online source has expired (131)

mapme.biodiversity 0.2.1

Bug fixes

• fixes a serious bug that occurred for tiled resources when multiple assets are within the same tile resulting in returning the same tile multiple times

Internal

• tests to catch above mentioned bug have been introduced for tiled resources

mapme.biodiversity 0.2.0

Breaking changes

• extensive renaming of resources and indicators. These are handled gracefully until the next release (i.e. a warning is issued and names are replaced):

• resources:

• treecover2000 -> gfw_treecover

• lossyear -> gfw_lossyear

• greenhouse -> gfw_emissions

• traveltime -> nelson_et_al

• nasagrace -> nasa_grace

• mintemperature -> worldclim_min_temperature

• maxtemperature -> worldclim_max_temperature

• precipitation -> worldclim_precipitation

• ecoregions -> teow

• mangrove -> gmw

• srtmdem -> nasa_srtm

• indicators:

• treecover -> treecover_area

• emissions -> treecoverloss_emissions

• treeloss -> treecover_area_and_emissions

• chirpsprec -> precipitation_chirps

• accessibility -> traveltime

• popcount -> population_count

• wctmin -> temperature_min_wc

• wctmax -> temperature_max_wc

• wcprec -> precipitation_wc

• gmw -> mangroves_area

• teow -> ecoregion

New features

• new resource(s):
  • nasa_firms
• new indicator(s):
  • active_fire_properties
  • active_fire_counts

Internal

• adapted download routine to GMW v3 (80)
• removed data.table from imports

Bug fixes

• fixing issue 84 concerning intersection of tiled datasets (86, @Jo-Schie)

mapme.biodiversity 0.1.2

Internal

• unit tests have been silenced in order to be more informative for reverse dependency checks
• checks for tile availability reactivated for SRTM
• fixed notes due to uninitialized variables in TEOW and biome indicators

mapme.biodiversity 0.1.1

Internal

• init_portfolio() now sets the testing attribute to FALSE by default.
• get_<resource>() functions now return filenames early if testing is set to TRUE.
• calc_<indicator>() examples now copy files to the R temporal directory and are wrapped in try() to avoid errors/warnings on CRAN if an internet resource is not available.
• examples for calc_tri() and calc_elevation() are now disabled on CRAN because of the responsiveness of CIGAR servers.

mapme.biodiversity 0.1.0

Breaking changes

• renamed '.assetid' to 'assetid' (22)

New features

• None

Internal

• ensures that tests and examples adhere to CRAN policies of only writing to the temporal directory (22).

mapme.biodiversity 0.0.1

Initial release

• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
• initial supported resources are:
  • ecoregions
  • esalandcover
  • greenhouse
  • lossyear
  • mangrove
  • nasagrace
  • soilgrids
  • srtmdem
  • traveltime
  • treecover
  • worldclim
  • worldpop
• initial supported indicators are:
  • accessibility
  • biome
  • chirpsprec
  • drought_indicator
  • elevation
  • emissions
  • gmw
  • landcover
  • popcount
  • soilproperties
  • teow
  • treecover
  • treeloss
  • tri
  • wcprec
  • wctmax
  • wctmin
• init_portfolio() is used to initialize a portfolio object. The input must be an sf object where all geometries are of type POLYGON
• users can request the download of one or more resources via get_resources()
• users can request the processing of an indicator via calc_indicators()
• indicators are added to the portfolio object as nested list columns
• a processed portfolio object can be exported as a GeoPackage via write_portfolio()
• a portfolio saved to disk as a GeoPackage can be read back into R via read_portfolio(). If users wish to download additional resources or calculate indicators, init_portfolio() has to be called again.
• Parallelization using multiple cores on the host machine is disabled on Windows
• on MacOS, the s2 engine for spherical geometric vector operations is disabled and lwgeom is used instead.

Internal

• Introduced absolute URLS in userguide.Rmd pointing to the online documentation (59)
• \value tags added to all exported functions explaining what is the output/side effect (59)
• using requireNamespace() instead of installed.packages() to check if packages listed in SUGGEST are loadable (58)

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