Package: RFmerge
Type: Package
Title: Merging of Satellite Datasets with Ground Observations using
        Random Forests
Version: 0.3-3
Authors@R: c(person("Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini", email = "mzb.devel@gmail.com", role=c("aut", "cre", "cph"), comment=c(ORCID = "0000-0002-9536-643X")), person("Oscar M. Baez-Villanueva", email = "oscar.baezvillanueva@ugent.be", role=c("aut", "cph"), comment=c(ORCID = "0000-0002-2262-1698")), person("Juan Giraldo-Osorio", email = "j.giraldoo@javeriana.edu.co", role=c("ctb"), comment=c(ORCID = "0000-0001-6205-3341")) )
Maintainer: Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini <mzb.devel@gmail.com>
Description: S3 implementation of the Random Forest MErging Procedure (RF-MEP), which combines two or more satellite-based datasets (e.g., precipitation products, topography) with ground observations to produce a new dataset with improved spatio-temporal distribution of the target field. In particular, this package was developed to merge different Satellite-based Rainfall Estimates (SREs) with measurements from rain gauges, in order to obtain a new precipitation dataset where the time series in the rain gauges are used to correct different types of errors present in the SREs. However, this package might be used to merge other hydrological/environmental gridded datasets with point observations. For details, see Baez-Villanueva et al. (2020) <doi:10.1016/j.rse.2019.111606>. Bugs / comments / questions / collaboration of any kind are very welcomed.
License: GPL (>= 3)
Depends: R (>= 3.5.0)
Imports: terra, randomForest, zoo, parallel, methods, stats, utils,
        pbapply
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown
VignetteBuilder: knitr
URL: http://mzb.cl/RFmerge/, https://github.com/hzambran/RFmerge
MailingList: https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-ecology
BugReports: https://github.com/hzambran/RFmerge/issues
LazyLoad: yes
NeedsCompilation: no
Repository: CRAN
Packaged: 2026-05-07 13:16:20 UTC; hzambran
Config/Needs/website: rmarkdown
Author: Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini [aut, cre, cph] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9536-643X>),
  Oscar M. Baez-Villanueva [aut, cph] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2262-1698>),
  Juan Giraldo-Osorio [ctb] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6205-3341>)
Date/Publication: 2026-05-08 07:31:59 UTC
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