v0.19.3

Release Notes

New Features

• Add support for POLARIS soil dataset. The new function is called soil_polaris. The function returns soil properties from the POLARIS dataset for a given location. The dataset includes soil properties such as soil texture, bulk density, organic carbon, pH, and soil moisture. The dataset is available for CONUS at 30m resolution.

Internal Changes

• Make matplotlib and folium optional dependencies instead of required dependencies. This is to reduce the size of the package and make it more lightweight. They are now required only if the plot module is used.
• Move the plotting functionality of PyGeoHydro for hydrologic signatures to HydroSignatures package. For now, the plot module is exported from HydroSignatures package to maintain backward compatibility.