CITATION.cff

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type: software
title: "bufferscape: Distance-Weighted Landscape Composition in Buffers Around Point Locations"
abstract: >-
  Characterises the environment surrounding point locations by computing
  land-cover composition within circular buffers directly from vector polygons,
  without rasterisation. 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.
authors:
  - family-names: Planta
    given-names: Michele
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3353-5368"
    email: micheleplanta@outlook.it
doi: "10.5281/zenodo.21577714"
repository-code: "https://github.com/mplanta-lab/bufferscape"
url: "https://github.com/mplanta-lab/bufferscape"
license: MIT
version: 1.2.0
date-released: "2026-07-26"
keywords:
  - R
  - spatial epidemiology
  - exposure assessment
  - land-use regression
  - buffer analysis
  - distance decay
  - landscape ecology
  - vector-borne disease