R Observatory: Metrics for satellite version 1.0.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

satellite

1.0.6Package record

Handling and Manipulating Remote Sensing Data

1packages depend

277.4Kdownloads / year

58.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Florian DetschCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Herein, we provide a broad variety of functions which are useful for handling, manipulating, and visualizing satellite-based remote sensing data. These operations range from mere data import and layer handling (eg subsetting), over Raster* typical data wrangling (eg crop, extend), to more sophisticated (pre-)processing tasks typically applied to satellite imagery (eg atmospheric and topographic correction). This functionality is complemented by a full access to the satellite layers' metadata at any stage and the documentation of performed actions in a separate log file. Currently available sensors include Landsat 4-5 (TM), 7 (ETM+), and 8 (OLI/TIRS Combined), and additional compatibility is ensured for the Landsat Global Land Survey data set.

Changes in 1.0.6

💬 documentation etc

Provides package anchors for \link{} targets (#45)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

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

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

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("environmentalinformatics-marburg/satellite")

Development version from environmentalinformatics-marburg/satellite. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

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-satellite

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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-satellite

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-satellite

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 10.5 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-04-22

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ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.6

READMEYes · 68 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.6Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 36includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 90%26 run in a plain check · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 96%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 96%
Help pages citing references: 28%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

277.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #769 · ~760/day · ~23.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

30.5K30 days

63.4K90 days

277.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.8K r2u9 autocran7.8K conda_forge208 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

environmentalinformatics-marburg/satellite ↗Organization: environmentalinformatics-marburg

23Stars

7Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

412Commits

14Commit identities

412 commits · Last activity 2025-08-25 · -4.2% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 71%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 5
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 21

Stars over time

2024-01-10 · 222026-10-03 · 23

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/environmentalinformatics-marburg/satellite on 2026-10-11.

CRAN release process (1)

revdep/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing satellite adds 5 packages (5 with compiled code, 8.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sp 4.3 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, terra 1.5 MB.

Depends (7)

R >= 2.10rastermethodsutilsstatsgrDevicesgraphics

Imports (5)

plyr Rcpp terratoolsstats4

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (4)

devtools knitr testthat rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

16indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

mapview

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Florian Detsch

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2017)

Tim Appelhans

Author

Hanna Meyer

Author

Thomas Nauss

Author

Previously maintained by Tim Appelhans (0.1.0 to 0.2.0).

Releases (9)

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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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2017-08-03 · diff ↗ ·
removed 12 exports
calcHistMatch, calibLinear, calibLinearInverse, convDN2RU, names, panSharp, projectSatellite, satAtmosCorr, satCalib, satInvarFeatures, satPathRadDOS, satTOAIrrad

added 3 exports
extend, plot, sortFilesLandsat

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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-07-22
Total releases: 9 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL (>= 3) | file LICENSE in 1.0.2
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 53 KB / 2 files
Download size: 2.2 MB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("satellite")

Format

Detsch, F., Appelhans, T., Meyer, H., & Nauss, T. (2025). satellite: Handling and Manipulating Remote Sensing Data (Version 1.0.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.satellite

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for satellite version 1.0.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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