R Observatory: Metrics for SpatialDownscaling version 0.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

SpatialDownscaling

0.1.2

Methods for Spatial Downscaling Using Deep Learning

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1.3Kdownloads / year

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13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Mika SipiläFirst published 2026-01-261 releasesCRAN page ↗

The aim of the spatial downscaling is to increase the spatial resolution of the gridded geospatial input data. This package contains two deep learning based spatial downscaling methods, super-resolution deep residual network (SRDRN) (Wang et al., 2021 doi:10.1029/2020WR029308) and UNet (Ronneberger et al., 2015 doi:10.1007/978-3-319-24574-4_28), along with a statistical baseline method bias correction and spatial disaggregation (Wood et al., 2004 doi:10.1023/B:CLIM.0000013685.99609.9e). The SRDRN and UNet methods are implemented to optionally account for cyclical temporal patterns in case of spatio-temporal data. For more details of the methods, see Sipilä et al. (2025) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2512.13753.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("SpatialDownscaling", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-spatialdownscaling

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-SpatialDownscaling

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-SpatialDownscaling

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

7

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 476 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 33%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 29%

Downloads

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.4.0

Imports (7)

statstensorflow keras3 magrittr Rdpack raster abind

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Mika Sipilä

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Mika Sipilä

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Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.2Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-01-26
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.4.0
Bundled data: 1.6 MB / 1 file
Download size: 1.6 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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citation("SpatialDownscaling")

Format

Sipilä, M., Cappello, C., De Iaco, S., Nordhausen, K., & Taskinen, S. (2026). SpatialDownscaling: Methods for Spatial Downscaling Using Deep Learning (Version 0.1.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.SpatialDownscaling

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for SpatialDownscaling version 0.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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