Package index

Vector-borne disease

l4h_dengue() stable

Extract dengue case data from OpenDengue

l4h_malaria() experimental

Extract malaria metrics from the Malaria Atlas Project GeoServer

Human intervention

l4h_forest_loss() stable

Extracts forest cover loss within a defined polygon

l4h_night_lights() stable

Extracts global night‑time lights using harmonized DMSP‑OLS and VIIRS data

l4h_urban_rural_area() experimental

Extracts surface areas by urban and rural categories from GHS-SMOD

l4h_human_built() stable

Extracts built‑up surface area from GHSL Built‑Up Surface dataset

Accessibility

l4h_rural_access_index() experimental

Compute Rural Access Index (RAI)

l4h_travel_time() stable

Travel Time to Healthcare or Cities (Oxford Dataset)

Environment

l4h_pm2_5() experimental

Extract Global PM2.5 (monthly) from Google Earth Engine

l4h_co_column() stable

Extracts carbon monoxide (CO) concentration from Sentinel-5P TROPOMI

l4h_urban_heat_index() experimental

Calculates the Surface Urban Heat Island (SUHI) index using MODIS LST and GHS-SMOD

l4h_vegetation() stable

Extract vegetation indices from MODIS MOD13A1

Climate

l4h_terra_climate() stable

Extract TerraClimate variables (monthly) from Google Earth Engine

l4h_sebal_modis() experimental

Download and process evapotranspiration data

l4h_surface_temp() experimental

Extracts Land Surface Temperature (LST) from MODIS MOD11A1

l4h_chirps() experimental

Extract CHIRPS v3 precipitation data from Google Earth Engine

l4h_era5land() experimental

Extract ERA5-Land climate variables from Google Earth Engine

Utils

l4h_list_metrics()

List available metrics in land4health

l4h_packages()

List all land4health packages

l4h_install() experimental

Install Python dependencies for land4health package

l4h_use_python()

Configure Python environment for land4health

l4h_ee_extract()

Internal Earth Engine data extraction (Optimized)