Changelog

This page lists the version history of .

2.0.0rc1 (June 27, 2022)

All new interface with simplified navigation screens and dataset loading

Updated documentation and website

Trends.Earth is now translated into all the official UN languages, as well as Portuguese. Swahili and Farsi translations (for the new interface) are planned as well.

New functions to support latest UNCCD reporting cycle (including direct support for exporting results for upload to UNCCD PRAIS system)

New functions to support assessing drought hazard, vulnerability, and exposure

New timeseries tool functions (now supports plotting restrend, WUE, etc.)

1.0.10 (July 7, 2022)

Address bug with TransformDirection related to changes in QGIS 3.22+

1.0.8 (October 15, 2021)

Address bug in saving final layer for SDG calculation (related to issues #500, and #505)

1.0.6 (July 15, 2021)

Remove trends.earth-schemas as a submodule and install through setup.py (much cleaner for version tracking, development, etc.)

Fix bug in loading 2020 NDVI data in GEE code (asset name wasn’t set right so 2020 wasn’t loading)

Various invoke tasks added to help with plugin development/release.

1.0.4 (June 30, 2021)

Add WorldPop and Gridded Population of the World version 4 (GPWv4) to the datasets available through Trends.Earth

Update to allow access to ESA-CCI land cover through 2020

Update GPCC and GPCP datasets

Fix bug when non-integer buffers are used

Minor documentation typo fixes

1.0.2 (August 14, 2020)

Fix urban area code to allow processing of AOIs with areas between 10,000 sq km and 25,000 sq km.

Add latest MERRA2 data (through 2019).

Remove maximum area limitation from download tool.

Bump httplib2 to 0.18.0.

Update from GPCC V6 to GPCC V7

Add 2019 Hansen et al. deforestation data

Update to latest colormap for degradation data (addressing issues with reg/green colorblindness).

Add support for more datatypes in input shapefiles (add PointZ, MultiPoint, MultiPointZ, PolygonZ, MultiPolygonZ).

Misc bugfixes to address Python errors that were coming up with some QMessageBox messages.

1.0.0 (April 27, 2020)

Add ability to download and use pre-compiled binaries (compiled with Numba) to speed up some local calculations. Right now this only is available for the SDG15.3.1 summary table calculation, but eventually this will be expanded to other tools as well.

Related to the above, there is now an “advanced” settings button in the settings window, that will allow users to download pre-compiled binaries, and to turn on or off detailed logging of messages while the tool is running. These log messages can be useful when trying to trouble-shoot problems if you encounter any.

Improve checks for geometry validity for geometries in input files, and give an error message rather than throwing an exception when there are geometry errors.

Fix processing using new MODIS data (assets were not properly updated in the last release)

Fix color-coding of land covers in land cover class aggregation window

Add more detailed version information to about dialog.

Add additional detail to data download tool.

Add job ID to downloads window to facilitate bug reporting.

Minor bug fixes (sorting of jobs and downloads tables).

0.98 (April 2, 2020)

First QGIS3 release - many fixes to upgrade to Qt5 and QGIS3 API.

Upgrade all dependencies of plugin to latest versions as of January 2020.

Fix data download tool to have default 1styles for all available datasets.

Begin moving to QgsProcessing and QgsTask frameworks - currently only the carbon tool is migrated, but all tools will be migrated prior to version 1.0./

Cleanup formatting of carbon tool output spreadsheet to make meaning of each column clearer.

Update all GEE scripts to use latest version of GEE API (0.1.213).

Save more settings chosen in tool dialog boxes across QGIS sessions.

Clean up buffering code, to use Lambert Equal Area projections centered on polygon centroids for buffering.

Move documentation into docs folder at root of trends.earth repository.

Add more details on how to documentation on how to contribute to development of Trends.Earth,

Clean up repository by removing compiled translations files, and adding these file types to .gitignore.

Change transifex project name to be “trendsearth”.

Various compatibility and minor bug fixes.

0.66 (July 20, 2019)

Limit maximum area for tasks to 10,000,000 sq km, except for urban area tasks, which is limited to 10,000 sq km.

Add background section on SDG 11.3.1, and update SDG 11.3.1 tutorial.

Update SDG 11.3.1 code to include 1998 in the series (internally during calculation) in order to filter noise from the beginning of the urban series.

Fix date restrictions in SDG 15.3.1 all-in-one tool to account for both ESA and MODIS availability.

Add section to readme on how to install Github releases.

Update and review Spanish translations, update google translations for other languages.

0.64 (July 9, 2019)

Fix handling of nodata in total carbon tool.

Add support for 2018 Hansen data in total carbon tool.

Add support for global 30m biomass data from Wood’s Hole in total carbon

Set maximum final year for one step SDG 15.3.1 tool to be 2015 (matching the ESA data).

Make Trends.Earth productivity the default dataset in SDG one step tool for 15.3.1.

0.62 (January 27, 2019)

Add experimental tool for mapping potential carbon returns from alternative restoration interventions.

Add 2018 MODIS data.

Miscellaneous fixes to window sizing for GUI windows.

Upgrade to latest openpyxl - fixes loading of Trends.Earth logo in summary tables.

Add publication list to help docs.

0.60 (December 3, 2018)

Add calculation of change in urban area and population growth rate (SDG 11.3.1)

Fix default button/entry field heights Add city selection for AOI

Add optional buffering of AOI

0.58 (August 11, 2018)

Add a testing section to the calculations page

Add testing version of total carbon (above and below-ground) and emissions due to deforestation

Minor bug fixes, including for invalid polygons in input AOIs

0.56.5 (May 21, 2018)

Fix error with LPD import requesting a data year.

0.56.4 (May 21, 2018)

Always resample imported data to the highest resolution.

Fix custom SOC import climate zones to use an expanded climate zones dataset to eliminate no data.

Update MOD16A2 with latest data.

Force entry of date on SOC and LC data import

Add global Trends.Earth outputs to download tool.

Fix handling of NULL values in legends.

0.56.3 (April 21, 2018)

Fix calculation of summary tables for AOIs that are split across the 180th meridian (Fiji, Russia, etc.).

Modify state calculation so areas with very small magnitude changes in NDVI integral (< .01 NDVI units over full period) are considered stable.

0.56.2 (April 10, 2018)

Minor unicode fixes.

0.56.1 (April 10, 2018)

Fix marshhmallow error on plugin load

0.56 (April 9, 2018)

Fix issue with rasterizing data (empty rasters on output)

Force user to choose output resolution if rasterizing a vector

Support calculation of SOC degradation from custom SOC and LC data

0.54 (April 8, 2018)

Support loading of custom LPD, SOC, and LC data.

Cleanup styles so they match maps.trends.earth

Upgrade pyopenxl

Add import/load icons to all layer selector boxes

0.52.1 (March 21, 2018)

Minor bug fixes during Antalya workshop.

0.52.1 (March 21, 2018)

Minor bug fixes during Antalya workshop.

0.52 (March 19, 2018)

Clean AOI processing code.

0.50 (March 15, 2018)

Pass exception if only related to Trends.Earth logo addition in Excel file.

Various minor bug fixes.

0.48 (March 13, 2018)

Fix table formatting

0.46 (March 13, 2018)

Support reporting table calculation with multiple geometries (Fiji, Russia)

Add LPD and LC tables to UNCCD worksheet tab

Clean up the warning message in the LPD import tool

Fix TE final combined productivity layer loading

Fix download tasks (still no styles)

0.44 (March 12, 2018)

Add JRC LPD

Add tool for uploading custom land cover data

Add tool for uploading custom productivity data

Add note that custom SOC upload is coming soon

Add tool to add basemaps using Natural Earth data

Add all-in-one tool for calculating all three sub-indicators at once

Rename “Bare lands” class to “Other lands” for consistency with UNCCD

Update docs

Upgrade to marshmallow 3.0.0b7

Move GEE code into the main trends.earth repository

Improve handling of AOIs, particularly when shapefiles are used for input

Handle multi-file outputs from GEE by tiling them in VRTs

Support processing data for countries that cross the 180th meridian

Improve formatting of summary table

From now on, GEE script versions will be matched to the plugin version

0.42 (February 4, 2018)

Fix crash on change of LC aggregation (due setEnabled on removed label)

0.40 (February 4, 2018)

Remove use of mode for land cover indicator.

Combine the summary table and SDG indicator map creation tools.

Add stub for where JRC LPD product will be available.

Save productivity sub-indicator as band 2 in SDG indicator file.

Bump GEE script to v0.3.

Fix error due to divide by zero on summary table generation when a class has zero area.

Default to MODIS for productivity calculations.

0.38 (January 16, 2018)

Add annual soil organic carbon calculation

Cleanup AOI processing code, allow multiple input polygons in shapefile AOIs

Add shading to side of land cover aggregation table items

Fix firstShow issue on aggregation table

Revise summary table output to provide further information on each of the three indicators

Add supplemental datasets to performance, state, land cover and soil organic carbon output.

Update no data and masking values to consistently be -32768 (no data) and -32767 (masked data)

Allow naming of file downloads

Add icon to toolbar menu, fix plugin name.

Refactor layer styling code to pull band info from GEE output.

Add a tool to load existing trends.earth datasets into QGIS.

Fix land cover date limits - don’t allow invalid dates toi be selected from CCI data.