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license: MIT
title: 'nert: Curated Access to TERN Environmental Raster Data'
version: 2.0.0
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.nert
abstract: Provides curated access to gridded environmental data published by Australia's
  Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN; <https://www.tern.org.au/>), spanning
  national soil attribute, soil classification, soil biodiversity, soil moisture,
  actual evapotranspiration, vegetation canopy height and phenology products. The
  package reads Cloud-Optimised GeoTIFF and virtual raster files directly from the
  TERN data server via GDAL /vsicurl range requests, streaming only the requested
  spatial and temporal subset for efficient data transfer. The environmental raster
  data are returned as terra::SpatRaster objects. A convenient helper function is
  also provided that provides a batch-download capability given specific locations
  and dates, returning the extracted data values in an analysis-ready data.table.
  Access to the TERN datasets using this package requires a TERN API key.
authors:
- family-names: Sparks
  given-names: Adam H.
  email: adamhsparks@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0061-8359
- family-names: Pipattungsakul
  given-names: Wasin
  email: wasin.pipattungsakul@adelaide.edu.au
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-2666-6315
- family-names: Edson
  given-names: Russell
  email: russell.edson@adelaide.edu.au
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4607-5396
- family-names: Rogers
  given-names: Sam
  email: sam.rogers@adelaide.edu.au
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8147-1239
- family-names: Moldovan
  given-names: Max
  email: max.moldovan@adelaide.edu.au
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9680-8474
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: 'nert: Curated Access to TERN Environmental Raster Data'
  authors:
  - family-names: Sparks
    given-names: Adam H.
    email: adamhsparks@gmail.com
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0061-8359
  - family-names: Pipattungsakul
    given-names: Wasin
    email: wasin.pipattungsakul@adelaide.edu.au
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-2666-6315
  - family-names: Edson
    given-names: Russell
    email: russell.edson@adelaide.edu.au
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4607-5396
  - family-names: Rogers
    given-names: Sam
    email: sam.rogers@adelaide.edu.au
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8147-1239
  - family-names: Moldovan
    given-names: Max
    email: max.moldovan@adelaide.edu.au
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9680-8474
  year: '2026'
  notes: R package version 2.0.0
  url: https://aagi-aus.github.io/nert/
repository: https://ropensci-staging.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/AAGI-AUS/nert
commit: 9d97f2704a6cba3fef05f077f7359c8bcd5976d3
url: https://aagi-aus.github.io/nert/
date-released: '2026-10-16'
contact:
- family-names: Moldovan
  given-names: Max
  email: max.moldovan@adelaide.edu.au
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9680-8474
keywords:
- TERN
- soil-data
- Australia
- earth-science
- data-access