Open Sustainable Technology

A curated list of open technology projects to sustain a stable climate, energy supply, biodiversity and natural resources.

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Emissions Modeling Framework

A client-server system designed to store information related to emissions modeling, with integrated quality control processes.

Emissions - Emission Observation and Modeling - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.3

ANEMOI

Large-eddy simulation code written in CUDA Fortran for simulating atmospheric boundary layer flows.

computational-fluid-dynamics cuda-fortran large-eddy-simulation

Atmosphere - Atmospheric Composition and Dynamics - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 3.7

EOS-AYCE

Eaternity's software platform serving as an open-source environmental operating system (EOS) for all you can eat (AYCE) for climate.

Industrial Ecology - Life Cycle Assessment - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 3.8

Real-Impact-Tracker-Methodology

A methodology to assess the Real Impact of funds on social and environmental issues.

Sustainable Development - Sustainable Investment - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 3.0

Climate Policy Radar Open Data

The full text of thousands of climate laws and policies from around the world.

Climate Change - Integrated Assessment and Climate Policy - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 1.6

FAME

Its purpose is supporting the rapid development and fast execution of complex agent-based energy system simulations.

FAME

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.7

Climate change in the contiguous United States

The Washington Post's analysis of NOAA climate change data for the contiguous United States.

Sustainable Development - Knowledge Platforms - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 4.0

foxBMS

A free, open and flexible development environment to design battery management systems. It is the first modular open source BMS development platform.

Energy Storage - Battery - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 0.7

pyWaPOR

Data manual and Algorithm to compute the evapotranspiration of large areas using remote sensing data.

Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: -Infinity

PowerGAMA

A lightweight simulation tool for high level analyses of renewable energy integration in large power systems.

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: -Infinity

REMix

The main focus is on the broad techno-economical assessment of possible future

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.3

AMIRIS

An agent-based simulation of electricity markets and their actors enabling researchers to analyse and evaluate energy policy instruments and their impact on the actors.

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 4.8

AMIRIS-Py

Python tools for the electricity market model AMIRIS.

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 3.4

IPCC-WG1-Code

Code and Data of the Physical Science Basis Working Group (WG1) as part of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Climate Change - Climate Data Processing and Analysis - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: -Infinity

Analysis-Ready, Cloud Optimized ERA5

A global history of the climate highly accessible in the cloud.

cloud-optimized ecmwf era5 open-science zarr

Climate Change - Climate Data Visualization and Access - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.8

WeatherBench 2

A framework for evaluating and comparing data-driven and traditional numerical weather forecasting models.

Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.0

satpy

A python library for reading and manipulating meteorological remote sensing data and writing it to various image and data file formats.

closember dask hacktoberfest python satellite weather xarray

Sustainable Development - Environmental Satellites - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 21.4

agera5tools

Tools for mirroring, manipulating and serving Global Weather for Agriculture data (AgERA5).

Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.5

era5cli

Command Line Interface to download ERA5 from Copernicus Climate Data Service.

Climate Change - Climate Data Processing and Analysis - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: -Infinity

HEMCO

Computing atmospheric emissions from different sources, regions, and species on a user-defined grid.

atmospheric-composition atmospheric-modeling aws bash-script cloud-computing configuration-files data-broker emissions geos-chem hemco masks regridding run-directory scale-factors scientific-computing standalone

Emissions - Emission Observation and Modeling - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.7

Ribasim

A water resources model, designed to be the replacement of the regional surface water modules Mozart and SIMRES in the Netherlands Hydrological Instrument.

hydrology julia water-resources

Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 16.4

aspe

An R package to analyse and visualise river fish data in France.

aspe dataset electrofishing fish france freshwater index map plot river sampling wfd

Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 4.6

pypromice

Deliver data about the mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet in near real-time.

greenland weather weather-station

Cryosphere - Glacier and Ice Sheets - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 11.4

SFINCS

Super-fast modelling of dynamic compound flooding in Coastal Systems.

Climate Change - Natural Hazard and Storm - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.7

ITS_LIVE

Provide automated, low latency, global glacier flow and elevation change datasets.

glacier glacier-dynamics glacier-flow glaciers its-live itslive

Cryosphere - Glacier and Ice Sheets - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.6

CRootBox

The focus of CRootBox is the simulation of different types of root architecture, and to provide a generic interface for coupling with arbitrary soil/environmental models, e.g., in order to determine the impact of specific root architectures on function.

Biosphere - Plants and Vegetation - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.8

galah

An R interface to biodiversity data hosted by the living atlases; a set of organisations that share a common codebase, and act as nodes of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

r

Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.1

austraits

R package for accessing the AusTraits Plant database, an open-source, harmonized database of Australian plant trait data.

australia database plants traits

Biosphere - Plants and Vegetation - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.7

ACCESS-OM2

Global ocean-sea ice coupled model configurations.

Cryosphere - Sea Ice - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.4

CalibrateEDMF.jl

Calibrate atmospheric turbulence and convection parameterizations using gradient-free ensemble Kalman methods.

Atmosphere - Atmospheric Composition and Dynamics - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: -Infinity

phenor

The framework leverages measurements of vegetation phenology from four common phenology observation datasets combined with global retrospective and projected climate data.

model-calibration phenocam phenology-models vegetation-phenology

Biosphere - Plants and Vegetation - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.2

Industrial Ecology Dashboard

A collection of open source projects relevant for industrial ecology practitioners.

industrial-ecology linked-list

Sustainable Development - Curated Lists - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.6

Ecoindex_cli

This tool provides an easy way to analyze websites with Ecoindex from your local computer using multi-threading.

ecoindex greenit python typer

Consumption - Computation and Communication - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 11.1

GreenFrame

A tool to measure the carbon footprint of a user scenario on a given website application. GreenFrame is able to measure CPU, memory and network usage of Docker or Kubernetes containers. By measuring resource consumption of dockerized E2E tests, GreenFrame allows to compare the consumption of an app between its different versions.

Consumption - Computation and Communication - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.1

forest-offsets

Includes our libraries and scripts for analyzing California's compliance forest carbon offsets program.

Emissions - Emission Observation and Modeling - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 9.4

SICE

An automated open source processing chain to determine daily albedo and other surface properties of glaciated areas.

Cryosphere - Glacier and Ice Sheets - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.3

HPWHsim

An open source simulation model for Heat Pump Water Heaters (HPWH).

Consumption - Buildings and Heating - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.6

ebcpy

Provides generic functions and classes commonly used for the analysis and optimization of energy systems, buildings and indoor climate.

hacktoberfest

Consumption - Buildings and Heating - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 11.7

AirQo

Develop hardware and software tools to help deliver Clean Air for All African Cities.

Natural Resources - Air Quality - Last synced: 09 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 4.6

SpiceEV

Simulation Program for Individual Charging Events of Electric Vehicles.

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.9

ElectricGrid.jl

A time domain electrical energy grid modeling and simulation tool with a focus on the control of power electronics converters.

Energy Systems - Energy Distribution and Grids - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: -Infinity

LiteFarm

A platform joining farmers and scientists together for participatory assessment of social, environmental and economic outputs of farming systems.

agriculture farming open-source organic-agriculture

Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.9

CLOVER

A minigrid simulation and optimisation for supporting rural electrification in developing countries.

Energy Systems - Energy Distribution and Grids - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.7

AeoLiS

Simulating aeolian sediment transport in situations where supply-limiting factors are important, like in coastal environments.

Hydrosphere - Coastal and Reefs - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.1

REEF3D

An efficiently parallelized hydrodynamics framework with a focus on coastal, marine and hydraulic engineering flows.

Hydrosphere - Coastal and Reefs - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.1

BirdNET-Analyzer

A deep learning solution for avian diversity monitoring.

acoustic-monitoring bioacoustics birds birdsong deep-learning

Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 9.3

ASSUME

An open-source toolbox for agent-based simulations of European electricity markets, with a primary focus on the German market setup.

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.3

GridPACK

An open-source high-performance package for simulation of large-scale electrical grids.

Energy Systems - Energy Distribution and Grids - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.3

perun

Calculates the energy consumption of Python scripts by sampling usage statistics from your hardware components.

Consumption - Computation and Communication - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.4

r3PG

An R package for forest growth simulation using the 3-PG process-based model.

Biosphere - Forest Observation and Management - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.8

LWFBrook90R

Simulates daily transpiration, interception, soil and snow evaporation, streamflow and soil water fluxes through a soil profile covered with vegetation.

evapotranspiration modeling r-package waterbalance waterflux

Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 14.2

DOLPHYN

Evaluates investments and operations across the bulk supply chain for electricity and Hydrogen including production, storage, transmission, conditioning, and end-use consumption.

Renewable Energy - Hydro Energy - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: -Infinity

SpeedyWeather.jl

A global spectral atmospheric model with simple physics which is developed as a research playground with an everything-flexible attitude as long as it is speedy.

Atmosphere - Atmospheric Composition and Dynamics - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.5

restoptr

Aims to identify priority areas for restoration efforts using optimization algorithms.

Biosphere - Conservation and Restoration - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 9.0

SpatIndex

This R package provides a simple way of computing spatially-distributed drought and extreme indices.

Climate Change - Climate Data Processing and Analysis - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 3.1

physrisk

Primarily designed to run 'bottom-up' calculations that model the impact of climate hazards on large numbers of individual assets including natural and operations.

Sustainable Development - Sustainable Investment - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 12.7

StormR

An R package allowing to easily extract storm track data for given locations or areas of interests, to generate wind speed and direction fields, and to compute summary statistics characterising the behaviour of winds generated by tropical storms and cyclones.

cyclones-behaviour r tropical-storms

Climate Change - Natural Hazard and Storm - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.6

ECTO

Modular environmental exposures ontology.

environment exposure health monarchinitiative obo obofoundry ontology owl

Sustainable Development - Taxonomy and Ontology - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.8

SESMG

An energy system model generator with the focus on the optimization of urban energy systems.

Energy Systems - Energy Distribution and Grids - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.0

specify7

A biological collections data management platform.

Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.7

OpenDER

Aims to accurately represent steady-state and dynamic behaviors of inverter-based distributed energy resources.

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.6

gfwr

R package for accessing data from Global Fishing Watch APIs.

api-wrapper mapping r

Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.7

MPET

Run simulations of batteries with porous electrodes using porous electrode theory, which is a volume-averaged, multiscale approach to capture the coupled behavior of electrolyte and active material within electrodes.

Energy Storage - Battery - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.1

pvOps

Contains a series of functions to facilitate fusion of text-based data with time series production data collected at photovoltaic sites.

Renewable Energy - Photovoltaics and Solar Energy - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.3

MEWS

A Python package designed to add extreme weather events to existing weather data or projections.

Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 9.5

pyNuMAD

An object-oriented, open-source software written in Python which facilitates the creation and analysis of three-dimensional models of wind turbine blades.

Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 3.2

PointER

A LiDAR-Derived Point Cloud Dataset of One Million English Buildings Linked to Energy Characteristics.

building-energy dataset deep-learning lidar point-cloud

Consumption - Buildings and Heating - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 3.8

Graph Weather

Data-driven approach for forecasting global weather using graph neural network.

forecasting-models graph-neural-networks pytorch weather

Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 11.2

MetNet

A neural network that forecasts precipitation up to 8 hours into the future at the high spatial resolution of 1 km² and at the temporal resolution of 2 minutes with a latency in the order of second.

pytorch

Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 13.1

Electricity Maps

A real-time visualization of the CO2 emissions from electricity consumption.

climate-change data-visualization hacktoberfest sustainability

Energy Systems - Energy Distribution and Grids - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 14.0

EPANET-RTX Library

The real-time extension to the EPANET Hydraulic Toolkit.

Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.6

Full Lands INtegration Tool

A modular system to estimate greenhouse gas emissions and removals by the land sector.

cpp-climate-change-linux-foundation

Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.1

EPyT

A Common programming framework for research and development in the growing field of smart water networks.

epanet epanet-matlab-toolkit epanet-python-toolkit network python simulation water

Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.2

Transportation Fuels Reporting System

An online application for fuel suppliers to manage their compliance obligations under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction.

award carbon cre cred credi credit credits empr f fu fue fuel fuels low nrm tra tran trans transfer transfers

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.6

SAM

An open-source software designed to help engineers create analytical models of energy-efficient buildings.

core sam

Consumption - Buildings and Heating - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.0

nmecr

Builds upon the energy efficiency community's past efforts to model complex and nuanced building energy use profiles.

Consumption - Buildings and Heating - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.4

Profit and emission database

A free public database on large corporate emissions and profits.

Emissions - Carbon Intensity and Accounting - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 0.0

HOPP

Assesses optimal designs for the deployment of utility-scale hybrid energy plants, particularly considering wind, solar and storage.

Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 11.9

RT1

A first order radiative transfer model for soil- and vegetation related parameter retrievals from radar-data.

microwave-remote-sensing python radiative-transfer remote-sensing soil-moisture vegetation

Atmosphere - Radiative Transfer - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 11.1

OceanMesh2D

Precise distance-based two-dimensional automated mesh generation toolbox intended for coastal ocean/shallow water flow models.

coastal-modelling geophysics meshes multiscale-simulation open-source shallow-water-equations

Hydrosphere - Coastal and Reefs - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.0

oceanmesh

A Python package for the development of unstructured triangular meshes that are used in the simulation of coastal ocean circulation.

coastal-modelling mesh-generation python

Hydrosphere - Coastal and Reefs - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.1

Fossil Shipment Tracker

A data platform that provides decision-makers, journalists and campaigning organizations with information that helps identify fossil fuel shipments from Russia.

Emissions - Emission Observation and Modeling - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 4.2

medfate

Functions to simulate Mediterranean forest functioning and dynamics using cohort-based description of vegetation.

Biosphere - Forest Observation and Management - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.1

meteoland

Functions to estimate weather variables at any position of a landscape.

Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.8

ClearWater Modules

A collection of water quality and vegetation process simulation modules designed to couple with water transport models.

Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 4.9

WorldCereal

An efficient, agile and robust EO based system for timely global crop monitoring at field scale.

Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 3.2

OrcaHello

A real-time AI-assisted killer whale notification system.

artificial-intelligence audio-analysis audio-processing bioacoustics deep-learning inference machine-learning marine marine-biology neural-network orcas real-time realtime whales

Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.9

xscen

A climate change scenario-building analysis framework, built with Intake-esm catalogs and xarray-based packages such as xclim and xESMF.

Climate Change - Climate Data Processing and Analysis - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.0

SNAP

A lagrangian type atmospheric dispersion model specialized on modelling dispersion of radioactive debris.

Atmosphere - Atmospheric Dispersion and Transport - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.3

cf-xarray

An accessor for xarray objects that interprets CF attributes.

cf-conventions metadata xarray

Climate Change - Climate Data Standards - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 13.1

FrEDI

Estimates economic damages and impacts from climate change and sea level rise through the 21st century.

oar

Climate Change - Natural Hazard and Storm - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.2

MOVES

A state-of-the-science emission modeling system that estimates emissions for mobile sources at the national, county, and project level for criteria air pollutants, greenhouse gases, and air toxics, available under EPA's Open Source Software policy.

oar

Emissions - Emission Observation and Modeling - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.7

ISRaD

Improve the use of radiocarbon as a constraint for understanding the soil carbon cycle.

Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.5

LROSE

The Lidar Radar Open Software Environment for Atmospheric Science.

Atmosphere - Atmospheric Composition and Dynamics - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.5

Earthdata Search

A web application developed by NASA EOSDIS to enable data discovery, search, comparison, visualization, and access across EOSDIS' Earth Science data holdings.

data-discovery earthdata-search eosdis hacktoberfest

Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.6

OpenFarm

A free and open database and web application for farming and gardening knowledge.

farming gardening open-source plants rails

Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 11.5

Awesome Earth

"What can I do about the climate crisis?" Here are 326 things you can do.

awesome awesome-list carbon-emissions carbon-footprint carbon-reduction climate-action climate-change climate-crisis food-waste footprint-calculators renewable-energy

Sustainable Development - Curated Lists - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.5

Karrot

Web application for organization of foodsaving groups worldwide.

community food grassroots organization social

Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.4

Awesome Remote Sensing Change Detection

List of datasets, codes, and contests related to remote sensing change detection.

awesome change-detection dataset remote-sensing

Sustainable Development - Curated Lists - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 9.1

GlobalFishingWatch

Track commercial fishing activity worldwide on the free, user-friendly, interactive Global Fishing Watch map.

Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 08 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.2