6. Corridor segmentation
In rcrisp: Automate the Delineation of Urban River Spaces

knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment = "#>",
  warnings = FALSE
)

library(rcrisp)
library(sf)

bucharest_osm <- get_osm_example_data()
bucharest_dem <- get_dem_example_data()

For a more detailed analysis of an urban river corridor, corridor-level delineation may not be sufficient. The corridor needs to be subdivided into smaller morphological units. Segmentation is a process of subdividing the corridor by using major transversal road or rail infrastructure lines.

By default, the all-in-one function delineate() only returns the corridor boundary. The corridor can be segmented either by setting the argument segments = TRUE in delineate() or by using the delineate_segments() function in a separate step.

To demonstrate this as a separate step, we will use the bucharest_dambovita$corridor from the package data, as well as bucharest_osm$streets and bucharest_osm$railways from rcrisp example data as input.

We first prepare the network and select all the streets and railways that cover the river corridor plus a small buffer region (see also vignette("network-preparation")):

# Add a buffer region around the corridor
corridor_buffer <- sf::st_buffer(bucharest_dambovita$corridor, 500)

# Filter the streets and railwayas to the buffer area
streets <- bucharest_osm$streets |>
  sf::st_filter(corridor_buffer, .predicate = sf::st_covered_by)
railways <- bucharest_osm$railways |>
  sf::st_filter(corridor_buffer, .predicate = sf::st_covered_by)

# Build combined street and railway network
network_filtered <- rbind(streets, railways) |>
  as_network()

We then delineate segments in the corridor. The algorithm spits the corridor using river-crossing transversal edges that form continuous lines in the network:

segmented_corridor <-
  delineate_segments(bucharest_dambovita$corridor,
                     network_filtered,
                     st_geometry(bucharest_osm$river_centerline))
plot(st_geometry(streets))
plot(segmented_corridor, border = "orange", lwd = 3, add = TRUE)