FedData

R package implementing functions to automate downloading geospatial data available from several federated data sources in hydology, soil, climatology, cropland or landcover.
https://github.com/ropensci/FedData

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Functions to Automate Downloading Geospatial Data Available from Several Federated Data Sources

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ropensci/FedData
• Owner: ropensci
• License: other
• Created: 2014-09-07T23:58:20.000Z (about 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-04-12T21:29:37.000Z (7 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-10-30T14:48:16.344Z (4 days ago)
• Topics: peer-reviewed, r, r-package, rstats
• Language: R
• Homepage: https://docs.ropensci.org/FedData
• Size: 405 MB
• Stars: 104
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 22
• Open Issues: 6
• Releases: 15
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.Rmd
  • Changelog: NEWS.md
  • License: LICENSE
  • Codemeta: codemeta.json

README.Rmd

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```{r setup, include = FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment = "#>",
  fig.path = "man/figures/README-",
  out.width = "100%",
  dpi = 72
)
```

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`FedData` is an *R* package implementing functions to automate downloading geospatial data available from several federated data sources.

Currently, the package enables extraction from nine datasets: 

* The [National Elevation Dataset (NED)](https://www.usgs.gov/3d-elevation-program) digital elevation models (1 and 1/3 arc-second; USGS)
* The [National Hydrography Dataset (NHD)](https://www.usgs.gov/national-hydrography/national-hydrography-dataset) (USGS)
* The [Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) database](https://websoilsurvey.sc.egov.usda.gov/) from the National Cooperative Soil Survey (NCSS), which is led by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) under the USDA
* The [Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN)](https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-based-station/global-historical-climatology-network-daily), coordinated by National Climatic Data Center at NOAA
* The [Daymet](https://daymet.ornl.gov/) gridded estimates of daily weather parameters for North America, version 4, available from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC)
* The [International Tree Ring Data Bank (ITRDB)](https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/paleoclimatology/tree-ring), coordinated by National Climatic Data Center at NOAA
* The [National Land Cover Database (NLCD)](https://www.mrlc.gov/), including the annual NLCD data
* The [NASS Cropland Data Layer](https://www.nass.usda.gov/Research_and_Science/Cropland/SARS1a.php) from the National Agricultural Statistics Service
* The [PAD-US](https://www.usgs.gov/programs/gap-analysis-project/science/pad-us-data-overview) dataset of 
protected area boundaries from the USGS

This package is designed with the large-scale geographic information system (GIS) use-case in mind: cases where the use of dynamic web-services is impractical due to the scale (spatial and/or temporal) of analysis. It functions primarily as a means of downloading tiled or otherwise spatially-defined datasets; additionally, it can preprocess those datasets by extracting data within an area of interest (AoI), defined spatially. It relies heavily on the [**sf**](https://cran.r-project.org/package=sf) and [**terra**](https://cran.r-project.org/package=terra) packages.

### Development
+ [Kyle Bocinsky](https://www.bocinsky.io) - Montana Climate Office, Missoula, MT

### Contributors
+ Dylan Beaudette - USDA-NRCS Soil Survey Office, Sonora, CA
+ Jeffrey Hollister - US EPA Atlantic Ecology Division, Narragansett, RI
+ Scott Chamberlain - ROpenSci and Museum of Paleontology at UC Berkeley

### Install `FedData`
+ From CRAN:
```{r install, eval = FALSE}
install.packages("FedData")
```

+ Development version from GitHub:
```{r install dev, eval = FALSE}
install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("ropensci/FedData")
```
+ Linux:
Follow instructions for installing `sf` available at , then install either from CRAN or GitHub. 

### Getting Started
Check out our [Getting Started article](https://docs.ropensci.org/FedData/articles/FedData.html).

### Acknowledgements
This package is a product of SKOPE ([Synthesizing Knowledge of Past Environments](https://www.openskope.org/)) and the [Village Ecodynamics Project](https://crowcanyon.github.io/veparchaeology/) through grants awarded to the University of Montana, the [Crow Canyon Archaeological Center](https://crowcanyon.org/), and Washington State University by the National Science Foundation. This software is licensed under the [MIT license](https://opensource.org/license/mit). Continuing development is supported by the [Montana Climate Office](https://climate.umt.edu).

FedData was reviewed for [rOpenSci](https://ropensci.org) by [\@jooolia](https://github.com/jooolia), and was greatly improved as a result. [rOpenSci](https://ropensci.org) on-boarding was coordinated by [\@sckott](https://github.com/sckott).



        

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• Total packages: 3
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• Total docker downloads: 88,618
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• Total dependent repositories: 6 (may contain duplicates)
• Total versions: 62
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