gloBFPr: Urban Environment Analysis Using Global Building Height Datasets

Automated access and analysis of multidimensional building profile in cities. The package provides tools to access, search, and download global 3D building footprint datasets. It includes functions to retrieve building height tiles, compute a range of 2D/2.5D building morphology metrics, assess environmental context (e.g., greenery accessibility), aggregate metrics to the city-block scale, support noise, shadow/radiation, and wind simulation, export study areas as 3D scenes (terrain, buildings, canopy) for 3D modeling software, such as Rhino3D and Blender.

Version:	2.0.0
Depends:	R (≥ 4.2)
Imports:	Rcpp, grDevices, stats, igraph, sf, dplyr, httr2, terra, utils, rlang, cli, nominatimlite, parallelly, future, furrr, ecmwfr
LinkingTo:	Rcpp
Suggests:	testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown, dsmSearch, viewscape (≥ 2.0.1), greenSD, ggplot2, osmdata, sfnetworks, tidygraph, tigris, duckdb, DBI
Published:	2026-09-04
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.gloBFPr
Author:	Xiaohao Yang [aut, cre, cph]
Maintainer:	Xiaohao Yang <xiaohaoy111 at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/billbillbilly/gloBFPr/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://github.com/billbillbilly/gloBFPr
NeedsCompilation:	yes
Language:	en-US
CRAN checks:	gloBFPr results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	gloBFPr.html , gloBFPr.pdf
Vignettes:	Block-Level Analysis with gloBFPr (source, R code) Building Metrics with gloBFPr (source, R code) gloBFPr (source, R code) Urban Noise Mapping with gloBFPr and NoiseModelling (source, R code) Building Shadows and Radiation with gloBFPr (source, R code) Urban Wind CFD with gloBFPr and OpenFOAM (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	gloBFPr_2.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: gloBFPr_2.0.0.zip, r-release: gloBFPr_2.0.0.zip, r-oldrel: gloBFPr_2.0.0.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): gloBFPr_0.1.3.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): gloBFPr_2.0.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): gloBFPr_2.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): gloBFPr_2.0.0.tgz
Old sources:	gloBFPr archive

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