Packages
Our open source R and Python software packages
bioRad 
R Biological Analysis and Visualization of Weather Radar Data: Extract, visualize and summarize aerial movements of birds and insects from weather radar data. See Dokter et al. 2019 for a software paper describing the package and methodologies.
camtraptor
R Read, explore and visualize Camera Trap Data Packages: Camera Trap Data Package is a community developed data exchange format for this type of data. With camtraptor you can read and filter data, create overviews of observed species, relative abundance or effort, and plot these data on a map.
frictionless
R Read and write Frictionless Data Packages: A Data Package is a simple container format and standard to describe and package a collection of (tabular) data. It is typically used to publish FAIR and open datasets.
etn 
R Access Data from the European Tracking Network: Package with functions to access data from the European Tracking Network (ETN) hosted by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ).
movepub
R Prepare Movebank data for publication: Prepare animal tracking data from Movebank for publication in a research repository or the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
niche_vlaanderen
Python Run the NICHE Vlaanderen model: NICHE Vlaanderen (Nature Impact Assessment of Changes in Hydro-Ecological Systems) is a hydro-ecological model that predicts the potential occurrence of (ground)water-dependent vegetation types in an area based on information about the (abiotic) site conditions. NICHE Vlaanderen can be used to evaluate the impact of changes in the water management to groundwater-dependent vegetation.
pydov 
Python Retrieve data from Databank Ondergrond Vlaanderen (DOV): pydov is a Python package to query and download data from Databank Ondergrond Vlaanderen (DOV). It is hosted on GitHub and development is coordinated by Databank Ondergrond Vlaanderen (DOV). DOV aggregates data about soil, subsoil and groundwater of Flanders and makes them publicly available. Interactive and human-readable extraction and querying of the data is provided by a web application, whereas the focus of this package is to support machine-based extraction and conversion of the data.
pywhip
Python Validate data against whip specifications: pywhip is a Python package to validate data against whip specifications, a human and machine-readable syntax to express specifications for data.
rgbif 
R Interface to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility API: A programmatic interface to the Web Service methods provided by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). GBIF is a database of species occurrence records from sources all over the globe. rgbif includes functions for searching for taxonomic names, retrieving information on data providers, getting species occurrence records, getting counts of occurrence records, and using the GBIF tile map service to make rasters summarizing huge amounts of data.
trias 
R Process Data for the Project Tracking Invasive Alien Species (TrIAS): TrIAS provides functionality to facilitate the data processing for the project Tracking Invasive Alien Species (TrIAS).
wateRinfo 
R Download Time Series Data from Waterinfo.be: wateRinfo facilitates access to waterinfo.be, a website managed by the Flanders Environment Agency (VMM) and Flanders Hydraulics Research. The website provides access to real-time water and weather related environmental variables for Flanders (Belgium), such as rainfall, air pressure, discharge, and water level. The package provides functions to search for stations and variables, and download time series.