R Observatory: Metrics for sits version 1.5.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sits

1.5.4

Satellite Image Time Series Analysis for Earth Observation Data Cubes

0packages depend

10.1Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Gilberto CamaraFirst published 2022-05-1915 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

An end-to-end toolkit for land use and land cover classification using big Earth observation data. Builds satellite image data cubes from cloud collections. Supports visualization methods for images and time series and smoothing filters for dealing with noisy time series. Enables merging of multi-source imagery (SAR, optical, DEM). Includes functions for quality assessment of training samples using self-organized maps and to reduce training samples imbalance. Provides machine learning algorithms including support vector machines, random forests, extreme gradient boosting, multi-layer perceptrons, temporal convolution neural networks, and temporal attention encoders. Performs efficient classification of big Earth observation data cubes and includes functions for post-classification smoothing based on Bayesian inference. Enables best practices for estimating area and assessing accuracy of land change. Includes object-based spatio-temporal segmentation for space-time OBIA. Minimum recommended requirements: 16 GB RAM and 4 CPU dual-core.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("sits", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("e-sensing/sits")

Development version from e-sensing/sits. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-sits

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-sits

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-sits

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 10.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.23

0.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

24

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-22
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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ERROR2026-04-18
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 99%
References docs: 17%

Downloads

10.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,709 · ~28/day · ~839/mo

Releases R versions

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10.1K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ e-sensing/sits

542Stars

89Forks

23Open issues

0Open PRs

49Releases

7,015Commits

38Contributors

remote-sensingbig-earth-datageospatialcbersimage-time-seriesland-cover-classificationlandsatsentinel-2

License GPL-2.0 · 7,015 commits · Last activity 2026-08-07 · +0.6% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-24 · 5082026-08-01 · 542

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/e-sensing/sits on 2026-08-03.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

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Codecov

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

52 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (24)

yaml dplyrgrDevicesgraphicshttr2 leafgl leaflet lubridate luz (>= 0.4.0)parallelpurrr randomForest Rcpp (>= 1.1.0)rstac sf sliderstatsterra tibble tidyr tmap torch unitsutils

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (17)

Maintainer (1)

Gilberto Camara

Author, Maintainer, Thesis advisor

Authors (4)

Gilberto Camara

Author, Maintainer, Thesis advisor

Felipe Carlos

Author · added in 1.5.1

Rolf Simoes

Author

Felipe Souza

Author

Contributors (13)

Pedro Andrade

Contributor

Alexandre Assuncao

Contributor · added in 1.5.3

Renato Assuncao

Contributor · added in 1.5.3

Pedro Brito

Contributor · added in 1.5.3

Ricardo Cartaxo

Contributor · added in 1.5.3

Daniel Falbel

Contributor · added in 1.5.3

Karine Ferreira

Contributor, Thesis advisor

Charlotte Pelletier

Contributor · added in 1.5.1

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Estefania Pizarro

Contributor · added in 1.5.2

Gilberto Queiroz

Contributor

Johannes Reiche

Contributor · added in 1.5.3

Alber Sanchez

Contributor

Lorena Santos

Contributor

Package Timeline

15 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.5.4Latest
2026-01-14 · current release · diff ↗
1.5.3-2
2025-10-07 · diff ↗
1.5.3-1
2025-09-03 · diff ↗
1.5.3
2025-07-24 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.5.2
2025-02-13 · diff ↗
1.5.1
2024-08-19 · diff ↗
1.5.0
2024-05-09 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.4.2-1
2023-11-02 · diff ↗
1.4.2
2023-10-28 · diff ↗
1.4.1
2023-06-13 · diff ↗
1.4.0
2023-05-17 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.3.0
2023-03-17 · diff ↗

Show 6 earlier events

unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-03-17
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-03-16
issues were not corrected in time
1.2.0
2022-11-16 · diff ↗
1.1.0
2022-07-07 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2022-05-19
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-05-19
Total releases: 15 / 4 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 182 KB / 4 files
Download size: 1.2 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Analysis of Spatial Data

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Camara, G., Andrade, P., Assuncao, A., Assuncao, R., Brito, P., Carlos, F., Cartaxo, R., Falbel, D., Ferreira, K., Pelletier, C., Pizarro, E., Queiroz, G., Reiche, J., Sanchez, A., Santos, L., Simoes, R., & Souza, F. (2026). sits: Satellite Image Time Series Analysis for Earth Observation Data Cubes (Version 1.5.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.sits

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for sits version 1.5.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-08. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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