Package: bufferscape
Title: Distance-Weighted Landscape Composition in Buffers Around Point
        Locations
Version: 1.3.0
Authors@R: 
    person("Michele", "Planta",
           email = "micheleplanta@outlook.it",
           role  = c("aut", "cre"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0009-0000-3353-5368"))
Description: Characterises the environment surrounding point locations
        by computing land-cover composition within circular buffers
        directly from vector polygons, without conversion to a raster
        grid. For each site and each class it returns the exact surface
        area inside the buffer and a distance-decay weighted
        "effective" area in which the kernel is integrated over polygon
        geometry rather than evaluated at the polygon centroid,
        avoiding the large bias the centroid approximation introduces
        for elongated features passing close to the site. Polygons may
        overlap, so class areas are not constrained to sum to the
        buffer area. Intended for buffer-based exposure assessment and
        fine-scale spatial epidemiology, where the relevant scale is
        tens of metres and global land-cover products are too coarse:
        land-use regression around air-quality monitors, green space
        around residential addresses, vector-surveillance traps, and
        comparable designs. The classification dictionary is
        user-supplied, and point features and distances to off-buffer
        reference features are recorded alongside the areas.
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
Depends: R (>= 4.1)
Imports: sf (>= 1.0.0), dplyr, tidyr, stringr, purrr, tibble,
        grDevices, stats, utils, tools
Suggests: ggplot2, writexl, readxl, terra, maptiles, testthat (>=
        3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown
VignetteBuilder: knitr
Config/testthat/edition: 3
Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
RoxygenNote: 7.3.1
URL: https://github.com/mplanta-lab/bufferscape
BugReports: https://github.com/mplanta-lab/bufferscape/issues
Config/pak/sysreqs: libabsl-dev cmake libgdal-dev gdal-bin libgeos-dev
        libicu-dev libssl-dev libproj-dev libsqlite3-dev
        libudunits2-dev
Repository: https://mplanta-lab.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-09-21 05:52:29 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/mplanta-lab/bufferscape
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 7d4e8c4e999d25eee03fc5f140526f54f8b2f00a
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-09-21 11:12:53 UTC; root
Author: Michele Planta [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3353-5368>)
Maintainer: Michele Planta <micheleplanta@outlook.it>