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In stacr: Tidy 'STAC' Workflows for R

stacr

Tidy STAC Workflows for R

Wraps the 'rstac' package with a pipe-friendly, tidy API. All results return tibbles instead of nested lists. Ships with a catalog registry of known STAC endpoints including Planetary Computer, Earth Search, and USGS, while supporting any STAC API URL.

# Install from CRAN (when available)
install.packages("stacr")

# Or install the development version from GitHub
# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("null-island-labs/stacr")

library(stacr)

# Browse known STAC catalogs
stac_catalogs()
#> # A tibble: 3 × 3
#>   name               url                                              provider
#>   <chr>              <chr>                                            <chr>
#> 1 Earth Search       https://earth-search.aws.element84.com/v1       Element 84
#> 2 Planetary Computer https://planetarycomputer.microsoft.com/api/st…  Microsoft
#> 3 USGS               https://landsatlook.usgs.gov/stac-server        USGS

# Search for Sentinel-2 imagery
items <- stac_search(
  url = "https://earth-search.aws.element84.com/v1",
  collections = "sentinel-2-l2a",
  bbox = c(-84.5, 38.0, -84.3, 38.2),
  limit = 5
)
items
#> # A tibble: 5 × 6
#>   id                       collection     datetime           bbox  geometry assets
#>   <chr>                    <chr>          <chr>              <list> <list>  <list>
#> 1 S2B_16SGH_20260304_0_L2A sentinel-2-l2a 2026-03-04T16:32… <dbl>  <named> <chr>
#> …

| Function | Description | |---|---| | stac_catalogs() | Browse known STAC endpoints (offline) | | stac_collections() | List collections from any STAC API | | stac_search() | Search for items by collection, bbox, datetime | | stac_items() | List items in a specific collection | | stac_download() | Download assets to local files | | stac_to_cube() | Bridge to gdalcubes for raster analysis | | stac_map() | Interactive leaflet map of item footprints |

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Chris Lyons — Null Island Labs

Part of the Null Island Labs geospatial toolkit