7.7 stars
- For the classic GIS view of raster layers,
terra
package
Capabilities of stars
include
- allows for representing dynamic (time varying) raster stacks
- aims at being scalable, also beyond local disk size
- provides a strong integration of raster functions in the
GDAL
library - handles, in addition to regular grids, rotated, sheared, rectilinear, and curvilinear rasters
- provides a tight integration with package
sf
- handles array data with non-raster spatial dimensions, the vector data cubes
- follows the
tidyverse
design principles