Package: RFmerge
Type: Package
Title: Merging of Satellite Datasets with Ground Observations using
        Random Forests
Version: 0.3-4
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, hydroGOF, RColorBrewer
VignetteBuilder: knitr
URL: http://mzb.cl/RFmerge/, https://github.com/hzambran/RFmerge,
        https://cran.r-project.org/package=RFmerge
Config/Needs/website: rmarkdown, hydroGOF, RColorBrewer
MailingList: https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-ecology
BugReports: https://github.com/hzambran/RFmerge/issues
LazyLoad: yes
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-06-11 06:33:14 UTC; root
Config/pak/sysreqs: libgdal-dev gdal-bin libgeos-dev libproj-dev
        libsqlite3-dev
Repository: https://hzambran.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-05-12 18:15:32 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/hzambran/rfmerge
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 05e11188d5ab839f461c7c9d751ad62e43e4d141
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>)