Author: Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini
Date: 2026-05-07

# Tutorial for merging satellite-based precipitation datasets with ground observations using RFmerge (>=0.3-0) - link

#### Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini1

#### Oscar M. Baez-Villanueva2

#### Juan Diego Giraldo-Osorio

#### Ian McNamara

#### 07 May 2026

A tutorial for using `RFmerge` to create an improved precipitation dataset by combining two different satellite-based precipitation products with ground-based observations and user-selected covariates (i.e., digital elevation model and Euclidean distances to rain gauge stations) can be found in the package website:

*RFmerge-RainfallExample-full**

1. mauricio.zambrano@ufrontera.cl↩︎

2. oscar.baezvillanueva@ugent.be↩︎