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gimms (version 0.3.0)

gimms-package: Download and Process GIMMS3g Data

Description

Download and Process GIMMS3g Data

Arguments

Details

We provide a set of functions to retrieve information about GIMMS NDVI3g files currently available online; download and re-arrange the bi-monthly datasets according to creation time; import downloaded files from native binary (ENVI) format directly into R based on the widely applied 'raster' package; and calculate monthly value composites (e.g. maximum value composites, MVC) from the bi-monthly input data.

References

Pinzon, JE & Tucker, CJ (2014). A Non-Stationary 1981-2012 AVHRR NDVI3g Time Series. Remote Sensing, 6(8), 6929-6960. Available online at http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/6/8/6929/htm.