Algorithms for multivariate outlier detection when missing values
    occur. Algorithms are based on Mahalanobis distance or data depth.
    Imputation is based on the multivariate normal model or uses nearest
    neighbour donors. The algorithms take sample designs, in particular
    weighting, into account. The methods are described in Bill and Hulliger
    (2016) <doi:10.17713/ajs.v45i1.86>.

Power of non-parametric Mann-Kendall test and Spearman’s Rho test is highly influenced by serially correlated data. To address this issue, trend tests may be applied on the modified versions of the time series data by  Block Bootstrapping (BBS), Prewhitening (PW) , Trend Free Prewhitening (TFPW), Bias Corrected Prewhitening and Variance Correction Approach by calculating effective sample size.
    Mann, H. B. (1945).<doi:10.1017/CBO9781107415324.004>.
    Kendall, M. (1975). Multivariate analysis. Charles Griffin&Company Ltd,. 
    sen, P. K. (1968).<doi:10.2307/2285891>.
    Önöz, B., & Bayazit, M. (2012) <doi:10.1002/hyp.8438>.
    Hamed, K. H. (2009).<doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.01.040>.
    Yue, S., & Wang, C. Y. (2002) <doi:10.1029/2001WR000861>.
    Yue, S., Pilon, P., Phinney, B., & Cavadias, G. (2002) <doi:10.1002/hyp.1095>.
    Hamed, K. H., & Ramachandra Rao, A. (1998) <doi:10.1016/S0022-1694(97)00125-X>.
    Yue, S., & Wang, C. Y. (2004) <doi:10.1023/B:WARM.0000043140.61082.60>.

Programmatic interface to several NASA Earth Observation 'OPeNDAP' servers (Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol) (<https://www.opendap.org/>). Allows for easy downloads of MODIS subsets, as well as other Earth Observation datacubes, in a time-saving and efficient way : by sampling it at the very downloading phase (spatially, temporally and dimensionally).

Programmatic interface to the Oak Ridge National Laboratories
    'MODIS Land Products Subsets' web services 
    (<https://modis.ornl.gov/data/modis_webservice.html>). Allows for easy
    downloads of 'MODIS' time series directly to your R workspace or
    your computer.