rGEDI 0.6.0 (2026-10-09)

• Add Level 3, Level 4A, and Level 4B readers and spatial processing tools
• Add Earthdata Cloud and Google Earth Engine integration
• Stream GEDI01_B, GEDI02_A, GEDI02_B, and GEDI04_A HDF5 granules through Earthaccess with the same typed readers used for local files
• Update Level 2A and Level 4A extraction for the current Release 3 quality fields and add beam/column controls for efficient cloud reads
• Resolve Earth Engine vector products through their granule indexes and add a complete real-data README workflow with reproducible figures and animation
• Add spatial sampling, modeling, prediction, and mapping helpers
• Add an interactive GEDI orbit animation
• Add static and GIF orbit products, recursive feature elimination diagnostics, Earth Engine Drive export, and a fully ordered end-to-end README workflow
• Restore waveform simulation and waveform metrics with a portable R/HDF5 implementation aligned with the focused Gaussian-footprint workflow in Steven Hancock’s simulator while avoiding its non-portable native library stack
• Match Steven Hancock’s C waveform core for pulse construction, bin mapping, density normalization, ground separation, and integral normalization, with a locked cross-language numerical fixture

rGEDI 0.5.8 (2026-10-09)

• Update the designated maintainer and contact email
• Mark the long-running grid statistics example for optional example checks

rGEDI 0.5.7 (2026-10-09)

• Fixes #68: direct call to S3 method from bit64
• Add testthat automatic testing
• Update url links from README.md and add tests
• Fix grid statistics functions after sf stopped exporting the pipe operator
• Update the GEDI data products URL after its permanent redirect
• Keep optional visualizations out of non-interactive example checks
• Make URL tests tolerate transient network and server failures

rGEDI 0.5.6 (2025-09-23)

• Update url links from README.md and add tests

rGEDI 0.5.5 (2025-09-23)

• Removed unused script tools
• Fixed redirected urls
• Added testthat for testing urls
• Fix minor problems with checks:

rGEDI 0.5.4 (2025-09-23)

• Fixed redirected urls
• Added testthat for testing urls
• Fix minor problems with checks:

rGEDI 0.5.3 (2025-09-23)

• Fix minor problems with checks:

rGEDI 0.5.2 (2025-09-22)

• Update documentation with tests

rGEDI 0.5.1.9000 (2025-09-22)

• Same as previous version.

rGEDI 0.5.1 (2025-09-22)

• Update polyStatsLevel2AM.R: fix example
• Update gedifinder.R to new NASA EarthCloud IDs
• Fix incompatibilities with sp and raster
• Use sf instead of raster::shapefile
• Replaced every usage of raster with stars
• ClipLevel1B use only sf and terra
• Split gedisimulator apart
• Update gedifinder to find level3 and level4 products
• Use user defined functions from parent env instead global

rGEDI 0.5.0 (2023-10-31)

• Replaced every usage of raster with stars
• Split gedisimulator apart
• Update gedifinder to find level3 and level4 products
• Use user defined functions from parent env instead global

rGEDI 0.4.0 (2023-06-15)

• gediMetrics: now working again, had a bug, allow beam filter
• gediSimulator: allow ascii output
• Update Hancocks’s gedisimulator
• Makevars.ucrt: remove GDAL from requirements

rGEDI 0.3.1 (2022-08-31)

• Use Makevars.ucrt for R 4.2
• Remove @bbox from lidR: deprecated slot
• Add Makevars.ucrt for the new Rtools42
• Use markdown in functions documentation

rGEDI 0.3.0 (2021-08-20)

• Add inst/proj and inst/gdal to .gitignore
• Use \href for external links
• update links to v002
• Use macro for referencing

rGEDI 0.2.1 (2021-07-02)

• gedifinder: use GEDI version=“002” in examples

rGEDI 0.2.0 (2021-07-02)

• Update gedifinder to use CMR for fetching v2
• Same as previous version.