Enabling geospatial workflow management with targets

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An R package called geotargets integrates terra with the workflow engine targets and fixes the common external pointer is not valid failure by providing custom target constructors and factories (e.g., tar_terra_rast()). It replaces a verbose manual workaround that saved ephemeral pointers with a concise API for raster and vector objects, supports iterating over tiles and building spatial datasets, is under rOpenSci review, and is already used successfully in reproducible geospatial pipelines.

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1. 0:00Introduction to geotargets
2. 0:52Understanding R targets
3. 1:51The geospatial data challenge
4. 2:58Developing the geotargets solution
5. 3:50Features and project outlook

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