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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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