rcrisp

Provides tools to automate the morphological delineation of riverside urban areas following the CRiSp (City River Spaces) method.
https://github.com/cityriverspaces/rcrisp

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Automate the morphological delineation of riverside urban areas.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/cityriverspaces/rcrisp
• Owner: CityRiverSpaces
• License: other
• Created: 2024-04-22T11:25:50.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-11-24T13:26:28.000Z (about 1 month ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-12-06T15:41:54.522Z (20 days ago)
• Language: R
• Homepage: https://cityriverspaces.github.io/rcrisp/
• Size: 83.4 MB
• Stars: 17
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 21
• Releases: 5
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.Rmd
  • Changelog: NEWS.md
  • Contributing: .github/CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE.md
  • Code of conduct: .github/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
  • Citation: CITATION.cff
  • Codemeta: codemeta.json

README.Rmd

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# rcrisp



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rcrisp provides tools to automate the morphological delineation of riverside urban areas following a method developed in @forgaci2018 [pp. 88-89]. The method is based on the premise that analyses of riverside urban phenomena are often done without a clear and consistent spatial definition of the area of interest and that a morphological delineation can provide a more objective and comparable approach.

Accordingly, the method proposes a hierarchical delineation of four spatial units: the river valley, the river corridor, the corridor segments and the river space. These units are defined based on the combined morphologies of the river valley and urban form. The resulting delineations can be used in any downstream analysis of riverside urban areas that can benefit from consistent and comparable spatial units, including land use, accessibility, and ecosystem services assessments.

The package includes functions to delineate the river valley, the river corridor, the corridor segments, and the river space (i.e., the area between the riverbanks and the first line of buildings) as well as an all-in-one function that runs all desired delineations. The package also includes functions to download and preprocess OpenStreetMap (OSM) and global Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data, which are required as input data for the delineation process.

## Workflow at a glance

1. (Optionally) get OSM and DEM base layers
2. Run the all-in-one `delineate()` or delineation-specific `delineate_*()` functions to compute valley, corridor, segments, and/or river space
3. Visualize/export results for downstream analysis

See the [Getting started vignette](https://cityriverspaces.github.io/rcrisp/articles/getting-started.html) for further details about the purpose of the package, an end-to-end example, data requirements, and indication of use cases.

## Installation

You can install the released version of rcrisp from [CRAN](https://cran.r-project.org) with:

``` r
install.packages("rcrisp")
```

You can install the development version of rcrisp from [GitHub](https://github.com/) with:

``` r
# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("CityRiverSpaces/rcrisp")
```

## Example

This is a basic example which shows you how to solve a common problem:

```{r example, warning=FALSE, message=FALSE}
library(rcrisp)

# Set location parameters
city_name <- "Bucharest"
river_name <- "Dâmbovița"
epsg_code <- 32635

# Delineate river corridor
bd <- delineate(city_name, river_name, segments = TRUE)

# Get base layers for plotting
bb <- get_osm_bb(city_name)
streets <- get_osm_streets(bb, epsg_code)$geometry
railways <- get_osm_railways(bb, epsg_code)$geometry

# Plot results
plot(bd$corridor)
plot(railways, col = "darkgrey", add = TRUE, lwd = 0.5)
plot(streets, add = TRUE)
plot(bd$segments, border = "orange", add = TRUE, lwd = 3)
plot(bd$corridor, border = "red", add = TRUE, lwd = 3)
```

## Contributing

rcrisp is in a stable state of development, with some degree of active subsequent development as envisioned by the primary authors.

We also look very much forward to contributions. See the [Contributing Guide](https://github.com/CityRiverSpaces/rcrisp/blob/main/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) for further details.

This package is released with a [Contributor Code of Conduct](https://github.com/CityRiverSpaces/rcrisp/blob/main/.github/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md). By contributing to this project you agree to abide by its terms.

## References

        

Citation (CITATION.cff)

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cff-version: 1.2.0
title: 'rcrisp: Automate the Delineation of Urban River Spaces'
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type: software
authors:
  - given-names: Claudiu
    family-names: Forgaci
    email: c.forgaci@tudelft.nl
    affiliation: Delft University of Technology
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3218-5102'
  - given-names: Francesco
    family-names: Nattino
    email: f.nattino@esciencecenter.nl
    affiliation: Netherlands eScience Center
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3286-0139'
contributors:
  - given-names: Fakhereh
    family-names: Alidoost
    email: f.alidoost@esciencecenter.nl
    affiliation: Netherlands eScience Center
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8407-6472'
  - given-names: Meiert Willem
    family-names: Grootes
    email: m.grootes@esciencecenter.nl
    affiliation: Netherlands eScience Center
    orcid: 'https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5733-4795'
repository-code: 'https://github.com/CityRiverSpaces/rcrisp'
identifiers:
  - type: doi
    value: 10.5281/zenodo.15793526
abstract: >-
  Automates the process of urban river space delineation
  using the CRiSp (City River Spaces) method.
keywords:
  - urban rivers
  - geospatial data
license: Apache-2.0

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Francesco Nattino	f****o@e****l	328
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