Software
R Packages
BlackMarbleR
BlackMarbleR provides a simple and efficient way to retrieve and extract nighttime lights data from NASA’s Black Marble project. Black Marble is a NASA Earth Observatory project that provides a product suite of daily, monthly and yearly global nighttime lights. This package automates the process of downloading all relevant tiles from the NASA LAADS archive to cover a region of interest, converting the raw files (in HDF5 format), to georeferenced rasters, and mosaicing rasters together when needed.
googletraffic
A package designed to extract live traffic information from Google Maps into a georeferenced raster. Facilitates analysis of Google traffic data; for example, for merging traffic information with other datsets and examining trends in traffic over time.
geoSIMEX
A package designed to incorporate spatial imprecision into regression analysis. Method based on the Simulation and Extrapolation Method (SIMEX), which is one approach to incorporate measurement imprecision into regression analysis. geoSIMEX adapts SIMEX to handle spatial imprecision.
Python Packages
BlackMarblePy
BlackMarblePy provides a simple and efficient way to retrieve and extract nighttime lights data from NASA’s Black Marble project. Black Marble is a NASA Earth Observatory project that provides a product suite of daily, monthly and yearly global nighttime lights. This package automates the process of downloading all relevant tiles from the NASA LAADS archive to cover a region of interest, converting the raw files (in HDF5 format), to georeferenced rasters, and mosaicing rasters together when needed.