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Viewscape Analysis

v3.0.0 · Jun 27, 2026 · GPL-3

Description

Provides tools for viewscape analysis from one or multiple viewpoints using a digital surface or elevation model. Core functionality includes computing viewsheds, quantifying visual magnitude, calculating a suite of viewscape configuration metrics (extent, depth, relief, Sky View Factor, skyline variation, and patch-based landscape structure), Shannon Diversity Index and land cover feature proportions within the visible area, pairwise intervisibility networks, panoramic view generation, and visualizing results as rasters or polygons. Viewscape configuration metrics follow the methods of Tabrizian et al. (2020) <doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.103704>. The viewshed algorithm is based on Franklin & Ray (1994) <https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:10680920> and Wang et al. (2000) <https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:131687018>. Visual magnitude is derived from Chamberlain & Meitner (2013) <doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2013.01.003>. Sky View Factor is computed following Oke (1981) <doi:10.1002/joc.3370010304> as implemented in the 'shadow' package (Dorman et al. 2019) <doi:10.32614/RJ-2019-024>.

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OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 22, 2026
ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 18, 2026
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examples

Running examples in 'viewscape-Ex.R' failed
The error most likely occurred in:

> ### Name: fov_mask
> ### Title: fov_mask
> ### Aliases: fov_mask
> 
> ### ** Examples
> 
> # Load a viewpoint
> test_viewpoint <- sf::read_sf(system.file("test_viewpoin
...[truncated]...
tem.file("test_dsm.tif", package ="viewscape"))
> # Compute viewshed
> viewshed <- viewscape::compute_viewshed(dsm,
+                                         viewpoints = test_viewpoint,
+                                         offset_viewpoint = 6)
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies Rcpp rlang dplyr sf sp terra ForestTools (>= 1.0.1) pbmcapply viewscape

Version History

6 tracked
updated 3.0.0 ← 2.0.2 diff Jun 27, 2026
new 2.0.2 Mar 10, 2026
updated 2.0.2 ← 2.0.1 diff Dec 18, 2024
updated 2.0.1 ← 2.0.0 diff Nov 10, 2024
updated 2.0.0 ← 1.0.0 diff Nov 8, 2024
new 1.0.0 Feb 3, 2024