An all-new interface, new core functionalites

An all-new interface, largely compatible to older versions, and new core functionalities shaping the package’s capabilities.

This major update introduces a new function interface that allows to query, preview, analyse, select, order and download records of multiple products from different sources at once. Records are represented as spatial sf data.frames. A new collection of functions is introduced that calculate AOI cloud cover from preview imagery and facilitate the automatic, reproducible selection of best-quality records in advance of downloading the datasets. Some functions are deprecated, but mostly, the new interface should be compatible with older versions. Please note that records column names are renamed by default, which will break older codes relying on column names. This can be turned off, if needed, which however is not recommended since multi-source queries are then impossible (see argument rename_cols of get_records).

Please report issues with this version so that they can be rapidly resolved.

getSpaitalData initial alpha

This release represents the initial version of getSpatialData that has been strongly altered in the following beta releases. Some functionalities might be broken, including MODIS download.