diff --git a/.github/workflows/CI.yml b/.github/workflows/CI.yml
index 2b0c41c..3013acd 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/CI.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/CI.yml
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ jobs:
           - ubuntu-latest
         arch:
           - x64
-          - x86
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@v1
diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 24d7b20..9e238a6 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ CategoricalDistributions = "af321ab8-2d2e-40a6-b165-3d674595d28e"
 ComputationalResources = "ed09eef8-17a6-5b46-8889-db040fac31e3"
 DecisionTree = "7806a523-6efd-50cb-b5f6-3fa6f1930dbb"
 DimensionalData = "0703355e-b756-11e9-17c0-8b28908087d0"
+Distances = "b4f34e82-e78d-54a5-968a-f98e89d6e8f7"
 EvoTrees = "f6006082-12f8-11e9-0c9c-0d5d367ab1e5"
 GLM = "38e38edf-8417-5370-95a0-9cbb8c7f171a"
 Lasso = "b4fcebef-c861-5a0f-a7e2-ba9dc32b180a"
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@ SpeciesDistributionModelsMakieExt = "Makie"
 
 [compat]
 CategoricalDistributions = "0.1.14"
+Distances = "0.10"
 MLJGLMInterface = "0.3.7"
 Rasters = "0.10.1, 0.11"
 StatisticalMeasures = "0.1.5"
diff --git a/src/SpeciesDistributionModels.jl b/src/SpeciesDistributionModels.jl
index 554f85e..92b3e6d 100644
--- a/src/SpeciesDistributionModels.jl
+++ b/src/SpeciesDistributionModels.jl
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ module SpeciesDistributionModels
 
 import Tables, StatsBase, Statistics, StatsAPI, StatsModels, LinearAlgebra, Random, ThreadsX
 import MLJBase, StatisticalMeasures, StatisticalMeasuresBase, ScientificTypesBase, CategoricalArrays
-import GLM, PrettyTables, Rasters, EvoTrees, DecisionTree, Shapley, Loess
+import GLM, PrettyTables, Rasters, EvoTrees, DecisionTree, Shapley, Loess, Distances
 
 using MLJBase: pdf
 using Rasters: Raster, RasterStack, Band
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ using StatisticalMeasures: auc, kappa, sensitivity, selectivity, accuracy
 import MLJBase: StratifiedCV, CV, Holdout, ResamplingStrategy, Machine, Probabilistic
 
 export SDMensemble, predict, sdm, sdmdata, select, machines, machine_keys,
-    remove_collinear,
+    remove_collinear, thin,
     explain, variable_importance, ShapleyValues,
     SDMmachineExplanation, SDMgroupExplanation, SDMensembleExplanation,
     SDMmachineEvaluation, SDMgroupEvaluation, SDMensembleEvaluation
@@ -39,5 +39,6 @@ include("explain/shapley.jl")
 include("evaluate.jl")
 include("interface.jl")
 include("extensions.jl")
+include("thin.jl")
 
 end
diff --git a/src/thin.jl b/src/thin.jl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6d85ae3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/thin.jl
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+"""
+    thin(x, cutoff; distance = Haversine(), [rng])
+
+    Thin spatial data by removing points that are closer than `cutoff` distance
+    to the nearest other point in the dataset.
+
+    ## Arguments
+    - `x`: an `AbstractVector` that iterates points, or a table with a `:geometry` column.
+    - `cutoff`: the distance threshold in units of `distance`.
+    ## Keywords
+    - `distance`: the distance metric used to calculate distances between points. The default
+    is `Haversine()`, which uses the Haversine formula to calculate the distance between coordinates in meter units.
+    - `rng`: a random number generator. The default is `Random.GLOBAL_RNG()`.
+
+    ## Example
+    ```jldoctest
+    using SpeciesDistributionModels, Distances
+    # a vector that iteratores points
+    geometries = [(0,0), (1,0), (0,0.000001)]
+    # thin to 1000 meters
+    thin(geometries, 1000)
+    # thin to 1 degree
+    thin(geometries, 1; distance = Euclidean(), rng = Xoshiro(123))
+
+    # output
+    2-element Vector{Tuple{Int64, Real}}:
+    (0, 0)
+    (1, 0)
+    ```
+"""
+function thin(x, cutoff; distance = Distances.Haversine(), rng = Random.GLOBAL_RNG)
+    if Tables.istable(x)
+        geoms = Tables.getcolumn(x, :geometry)
+        indices = _thin(geoms, cutoff, distance, rng)
+        return Tables.subset(x, indices)
+    elseif x isa AbstractVector
+        _geoms = unique(x)
+        indices = _thin(_geoms, cutoff, distance, rng)
+        return _geoms[indices]
+    else
+        throw(ArgumentError("x must be an AbstractVector or a Table with a :geometry column."))
+    end
+end
+
+function _thin(geoms::AbstractVector, cutoff::Real, distance::Distances.Metric, rng::Random.AbstractRNG)
+    dist_matrix = Distances.pairwise(distance, geoms)
+
+    dist_mask = dist_matrix .< cutoff
+    dist_sum = vec(sum(dist_mask; dims = 1))
+    s = size(dist_sum, 1)
+
+    indices = collect(1:s)
+
+    for i in 1:s
+        m = maximum(dist_sum)
+        if m == 1
+            break
+        else
+            drop = rand(rng, findall(dist_sum .== m))
+            dist_sum .-= @view dist_mask[drop, :]
+            drop_indices = 1:s .!= drop
+            dist_mask = @view dist_mask[drop_indices, drop_indices]
+            dist_sum = @view dist_sum[drop_indices]
+            s -= 1
+            indices = @view indices[drop_indices]
+        end
+    end
+    return indices
+end