Analyze temporal changes in geospatial data

Analyze temporal changes in raster data including trend analysis, change detection, and seasonal patterns. Works with any time series data.

Usage

analyze_temporal_changes(
  data_list,
  dates = NULL,
  region_boundary = NULL,
  analysis_type = "trend",
  output_folder = NULL
)

Arguments

data_list

List of raster data for different time periods

dates

Vector of dates corresponding to rasters

region_boundary

Region boundary for analysis

analysis_type

Type of temporal analysis: "trend", "change_detection", "seasonal", "statistics"

output_folder

Output directory for results

Value

Temporal analysis results

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# These examples require external data files not included with the package
# Analyze NDVI trends over time
ndvi_trend <- analyze_temporal_changes(
  data_list = c("ndvi_2020.tif", "ndvi_2021.tif", "ndvi_2022.tif"),
  dates = c("2020", "2021", "2022"),
  region_boundary = "Iowa",
  analysis_type = "trend"
)

# Detect land cover changes
land_changes <- analyze_temporal_changes(
  data_list = land_cover_files,
  dates = land_cover_dates,
  analysis_type = "change_detection"
)
} # }