Utilities to support spatial data manipulation, query, sampling
    and modelling in ecological applications. Functions include models for species 
	population density, spatial smoothing, multivariate separability, point process 
	model for creating pseudo- absences and sub-sampling, Quadrant-based sampling and 
	analysis, auto-logistic modeling, sampling models, cluster optimization, statistical 
	exploratory tools and raster-based metrics.

Methods and data for cluster detection and disease mapping.

Tools for the statistical modelling of spatial extremes using max-stable processes, copula or Bayesian hierarchical models. More precisely, this package allows (conditional) simulations from various parametric max-stable models, analysis of the extremal spatial dependence, the fitting of such processes using composite likelihoods or least square (simple max-stable processes only), model checking and selection and prediction. Other approaches (although not completely in agreement with the extreme value theory) are available such as the use of (spatial) copula and Bayesian hierarchical models assuming the so-called conditional assumptions. The latter approaches is handled through an (efficient) Gibbs sampler. Some key references: Davison et al. (2012) <doi:10.1214/11-STS376>, Padoan et al. (2010) <doi:10.1198/jasa.2009.tm08577>, Dombry et al. (2013) <doi:10.1093/biomet/ass067>.

Visualization and analysis of spatially resolved transcriptomics data. The 'spatialGE'
	R package provides methods for visualizing and analyzing spatially resolved transcriptomics data, 
	such as 10X Visium, CosMx, or csv/tsv gene expression matrices. It includes tools for spatial 
	interpolation, autocorrelation analysis, tissue domain detection, gene set enrichment, and 
	differential expression analysis using spatial mixed models.

Fit latent variable models with the GEV distribution as the data likelihood and the GEV parameters following latent Gaussian processes. The models in this package are built using the template model builder 'TMB' in R, which has the fast ability to integrate out the latent variables using Laplace approximation. This package allows the users to choose in the fit function which GEV parameter(s) is considered as a spatially varying random effect following a Gaussian process, so the users can fit spatial GEV models with different complexities to their dataset without having to write the models in 'TMB' by themselves. This package also offers methods to sample from both fixed and random effects posteriors as well as the posterior predictive distributions at different spatial locations. Methods for fitting this class of models are described in Chen, Ramezan, and Lysy (2024) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2110.07051>.