Package: nert
Title: Curated Access to TERN Environmental Raster Data
Version: 1.1.0
Authors@R: c(
    person("Adam H.", "Sparks", , "adamhsparks@gmail.com", role = "aut",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-0061-8359")),
    person("Wasin", "Pipattungsakul", , "wasin.pipattungsakul@adelaide.edu.au", role = "aut"),
    person("Russell", "Edson", , "russell.edson@adelaide.edu.au", role = "aut",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-4607-5396")),
    person("Sam", "Rogers", , "sam.rogers@adelaide.edu.au", role = "aut",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-8147-1239")),
    person("Max", "Moldovan", , "max.moldovan@adelaide.edu.au", role = c("cre", "aut"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-9680-8474")),
    person("Grains Research and Development Corporation", role = c("fnd", "cph"),
           comment = c("GRDC Project CUR2210-005OPX (AAGI-CU), UOA2301-005OPX (AAGI-AU)", ROR = "02xwr1996"))
  )
Description: Provides curated access to gridded environmental data
        published by Australia's Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
        (TERN; <https://www.tern.org.au/>), spanning national soil
        attribute, soil classification, soil biodiversity, soil
        moisture, actual evapotranspiration, vegetation canopy height
        and phenology products. The package reads Cloud-Optimised
        GeoTIFF and virtual raster files directly from the TERN data
        server via GDAL '/vsicurl' range requests, streaming only the
        requested spatial and temporal subset for efficient data
        transfer. The environmental raster data are returned as
        terra::SpatRaster objects. A convenient helper function is also
        provided that provides a batch-download capability given
        specific locations and dates, returning the extracted data
        values in an analysis-ready data.table. Access to the TERN
        datasets using this package requires a TERN API key.
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://aagi-aus.github.io/nert/, https://github.com/AAGI-AUS/nert
BugReports: https://github.com/AAGI-AUS/nert/issues
Depends: R (>= 3.5.0)
Imports: cli, data.table, ggplot2 (>= 3.5.0), lubridate, rlang, terra,
        tidyterra, utils
Suggests: keyring, knitr, nlme, rmarkdown, testthat (>= 3.2.0), xml2,
        usethis, withr
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Config/Needs/build: moodymudskipper/devtag
Config/roxygen2/version: 8.0.0
Config/testthat/edition: 3
Config/testthat/parallel: true
Encoding: UTF-8
Language: en-AU
Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE, roclets = c("collate", "namespace",
        "rd", "devtag::dev_roclet"))
X-schema.org-applicationCategory: Tools
X-schema.org-isPartOf:
        https://grdc.com.au/research/partnerships-and-initiatives/strategic-partnerships/aagi
X-schema.org-keywords: TERN, soil-data, Australia, earth-science,
        data-access
Config/pak/sysreqs: libabsl-dev cmake libgdal-dev gdal-bin libgeos-dev
        libicu-dev libssl-dev libproj-dev libsqlite3-dev
        libudunits2-dev
Repository: https://aagi-aus.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-07-03 02:28:43 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/AAGI-AUS/nert
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 2827c7dc6f033fe82e1bf74b4346336a7bf49d13
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-07-03 03:06:17 UTC; root
Author: Adam H. Sparks [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0061-8359>),
  Wasin Pipattungsakul [aut],
  Russell Edson [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4607-5396>),
  Sam Rogers [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8147-1239>),
  Max Moldovan [cre, aut] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9680-8474>),
  Grains Research and Development Corporation [fnd, cph] (GRDC Project
    CUR2210-005OPX (AAGI-CU), UOA2301-005OPX (AAGI-AU), ROR:
    <https://ror.org/02xwr1996>)
Maintainer: Max Moldovan <max.moldovan@adelaide.edu.au>