The package provides tools to fill-in missing values in satellite data.
It can be used to gap-fill, e.g., MODIS NDVI data and
is helpful when developing new gap-fill algorithms.
The methods are tailored to data (images) observed at equally-spaced points in time.
This is typically the case for MODIS land surface products and AVHRR NDVI data, among others.
The predictions of the missing values are based on a subset-predict procedure, i.e.,
each missing value is predicted separately by
(1) selecting subsets of the data that are in a neighborhood around the missing point and
(2) predicting the missing value based on the subset.
The main function of the package is Gapfill
.
F. Gerber, R. de Jong, M. E. Schaepman, G. Schaepman-Strub, and R. Furrer (2018) in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, pp. 1-13, 10.1109/TGRS.2017.2785240.