Open Sustainable Technology
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MICM Chemistry
A unique chemistry module that can be implemented in any atmosphere model used at NCAR.
atmospheric-chemistry atmospheric-modeling atmospheric-science cuda gpu gpu-acceleration hpc ode-solver
Atmosphere - Atmospheric Chemistry and Aerosol - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.7
InaSAFE
QGIS plugin for estimating impact from natural disasters.
disasterresponse inasafe python qgis qgis-plugin risk
Climate Change - Natural Hazard and Storm - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 10.4
pyam
A Python package for data-wrangling, analysis and visualization of integrated-assessment scenarios and energy systems modeling results.
analysis energy-systems iamc-format integrated-assessment integrated-assessment-scenarios macro-energy modeling pyam scenario scenario-data timeseries-format visualization
Climate Change - Integrated Assessment and Climate Policy - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 18.6
dvm-dos-tem
A process based Dynamic Vegetation, Dynamic Organic Soil, Terrestrial Ecosystem Model.
carbon-cycling ecosystem-modeling fire-dynamics permafrost-dynamics soil-thermal-dynamics vegetation-dynamics
Biosphere - Plants and Vegetation - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 8.5
Ribbit Network Frog Sensor
The sensor for the world's largest crowdsourced network of open-source, low-cost, CO2 Gas Detection Sensors.
balena climate co2-sensors influxdb raspberry-pi
Emissions - Emission Observation and Modeling - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.5
datazoom.amazonia
Facilitates access to official Brazilian Amazon data, including agriculture, deforestation, production.
amazonia datazoom municipality
Biosphere - Forest Observation and Management - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.5
PowerSystemDataModel
Provides an extensive data model capable of modeling energy systems with high granularity e.g. for bottom-up simulations.
datamodel powersystem simulation
Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 13.3
GasModels.jl
A Julia/JuMP Package for Gas Network Optimization.
gas-flow gas-network-formulations network optimization
Energy Storage - Hydrogen - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.3
OPEM
A modeling tool for evaluating the performance of proton exchange membrane fuel cells.
chemistry dynamic-analysis electrochemistry fuel-cell opem pem physics physics-simulation python script simulation simulator static-analysis static-analyzer
Energy Storage - Hydrogen - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 13.8
SWMM5plus
Prototype Fortran 2008 engine for the EPA Storm Water Management Model.
Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.3
FAIR
Finite Amplitude Impulse-Response simple climate-carbon-cycle model.
Climate Change - Earth and Climate Modeling - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 13.9
rgee
An R binding package for calling Google Earth Engine API from within R.
earth-engine earthengine google-earth-engine googleearthengine r spatial-analysis spatial-data
Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.1
WildBook-ia
Builds open software and artificial intelligence for the conservation research community; pairs with the Wildbook project.
Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 14.0
FORTLS
Detect and segment individual tree from remotely sensed data.
forest-inventory forest-monitoring lidar-point-cloud
Biosphere - Forest Observation and Management - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 10.7
Integrated Carbon Observation System
Produces standardised data on greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, as well as on carbon fluxes between the atmosphere, the earth and oceans.
dataaccess european greenhouse-gas icos
Emissions - Emission Observation and Modeling - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 11.8
PV_ICE
An open-source tool to quantify Solar Photovoltaics (PV) Energy and Mass Flows in the Circular Economy, from a Reliability and Lifetime approach.
circular-economy circularity circularity-metrics lifetime mass-flow photovoltaics recycle reliability repair reuse solar-energy
Renewable Energy - Photovoltaics and Solar Energy - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 10.7
Naturtag
A tool for nature photographers that adds useful metadata to describe the organisms in your photos.
biodiversity biodiversity-data cli darwin-core dwc exif hierarchical-keywords inaturalist iptc photography taxonomy xmp
Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.0
ClimaX
The first foundation model for weather and climate science.
Climate Change - Earth and Climate Modeling - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity
SolarNetwork
Flexible platform for the monitoring and control of energy assets, meters, sensors, weather stations, EV chargers, market pricing, load optimization, and more.
bacnet canbus climate-data energy energy-consumption energy-data energy-generation energy-monitoring iot java loxone mbus modbus osgi plugin-architecture
Energy Systems - Energy Monitoring and Management - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 4.8
Water Network Tool for Resilience
A Python package designed to simulate and analyze resilience of water distribution networks.
modeling ord python simulation water
Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 18.7
Green Metrics Tool
An open source suite to measure, display and compare software energy and CO2 consumption for containerized software. External power meters as well as RAPL and also ML-estimation models are supported.
carbon-footprint climate-change co2-emissions green-computing green-software metrics power-consumption sustainability sustainable-software
Consumption - Computation and Communication - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 8.0
OpenSoundscape
A free and open source Python utility library analyzing bioacoustic data.
Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 8.7
downscaleR
An R package for empirical-statistical downscaling focusing on daily data and covering the most popular approaches (bias correction, Model Output Statistics, Perfect Prognosis) and techniques (e.g. quantile mapping, regression, analogs, neural networks).
Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 8.6
Meirim
A open-source smart city application that facilitates transparency in urban planning.
citizen-participation democracy smart-cities urban-planning
Consumption - Buildings and Heating - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 9.0
GPM-API
Provides an easy-to-use python interface to download, read, process and visualize most of the products of the Global Precipitation Measurement Mission (GPM) data archive.
Hydrosphere - Ocean and Hydrology Data Access - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 11.5
TEASER
Tool for Energy Analysis and Simulation for Efficient Retrofit.
buildings hacktoberfest python simulation urban-energy-modeling
Consumption - Buildings and Heating - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 15.3
lidR
An R package for airborne LiDAR data manipulation and visualization for forestry application.
als forestry las laz lidar point-cloud r remote-sensing
Biosphere - Forest Observation and Management - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.8
fasstr
An R package to analyze, summarize, and visualize daily streamflow data.
bcgov for frequency-analysis hydat hydrology r streamflow summary-statistics trends water
Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 15.4
PowerDynamics.jl
Provides all the tools you need to create a dynamic power grid model and analyze it.
Energy Systems - Energy Distribution and Grids - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity
ufs-weather-model
Contains the model code and external links needed to build the Unified Forecast System atmosphere model and associated components, including the WaveWatch III model.
community-modeling forecast-model numerical-weather-prediction nwp ufs unified-forecast-system weather-model
Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity
AtmoSwing
Allow predicting local meteorological variables of interest, such as the daily precipitation, based on synoptic variables.
analogue downscaling forecast precipitation
Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.0
etn
Provides functionality to access data from the European Tracking Network (ETN) database hosted by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) as part of the Flemish contribution to LifeWatch.
animal-movement animal-tracking biologging data-access fish lifewatch oscibio r r-package rstats
Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.9
pvanalytics
Quality control, filtering, feature labeling, and other tools for working with data from photovoltaic energy systems.
photovoltaic python renewable-energy renewables solar-energy
Renewable Energy - Photovoltaics and Solar Energy - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 14.3
AQP
Algorithms for Quantitative Pedology is a collection of code, ideas, documentation, and examples wrapped-up into several R packages.
digital-soil-mapping ncss-tech nrcs pedology pedometrics soil soil-survey usda
Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 18.5
getSpatialData
Making it easy to query, preview, download and preprocess multiple kinds of satellite datasets via R.
api-client copernicus esa getspatialdata landsat modis nasa r remote-sensing sentinel spatial-data usgs-earth-explorer
Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.6
ecoCode
Reduce the environmental footprint of your programs with this cutting-edge SonarQube plugin.
climate-change code-quality ecodesign ecoscore energy-efficiency sonarqube sonarqube-plugin static-analysis sustainability
Consumption - Computation and Communication - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 9.2
open-MaStR
Download and process German energy data from BNetzA database Marktstammdatenregister.
dataset datasets energy energy-data marktstammdatenregister oep open-energy-family python solar
Energy Systems - Energy System Data Access - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 15.3
OpenCastKit
Open-source solutions of global data-driven high-resolution weather forecasting.
Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.7
icclim
Python library for climate indices and climate indicators calculation.
calculation-climate climate-indicators climate-indices climate-simulations icclim netcdf python python-library python-package xarray xclim
Climate Change - Climate Data Processing and Analysis - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 16.4
antaresRead
Import, manipulate and explore the results of an Antares simulation.
adequacy bilan electricity energy hdf5 linear-algebra monte-carlo-simulation optimisation previsionnel r rhdf5 rte simulation tyndp
Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 13.4
Climatemind
Explore how your values and personal interests are being affected by climate change and shows you attractive solutions exist that you may not be aware of.
climate climate-action climate-change climate-science climatechange flask global-warming owl-ontology python
Sustainable Development - Knowledge Platforms - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.0
nwfscSurvey
Tool to pull and process NWFSC West Coast groundfish survey data for use in PFMC groundfish stock assessments.
Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.4
gbfs
Documentation for the General Bikeshare Feed Specification, a standardized data feed for shared mobility system availability.
bike-share bike-sharing bikesharing carshare carsharing civic-tech gbfs gbfs-documentation mobility mobility-as-a-service mobilitydata open-data scooter-sharing shared-mobility urban-mobility
Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 11.5
esd
Designed for climate and weather data analysis, empirical-statistical downscaling, and visualisation.
Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 8.2
SFINCS
Super-fast modelling of dynamic compound flooding in Coastal Systems.
Climate Change - Natural Hazard and Storm - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.4
HydroFunctions
A suite of convenience functions for working with hydrology data in an interactive Python session.
hydrology scientific-visualization water
Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 12.7
FINE
Provides a framework for modeling, optimizing and assessing energy systems.
Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 14.3
climlab
A Python package for process-oriented climate modeling.
climate-model climate-science educational-software python
Climate Change - Earth and Climate Modeling - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 13.7
nhdplusTools
This package is a growing set of tools for manipulation of hydrographic data using the NHDPlus data model.
Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 13.5
D-EcoImpact
A Python based kernel to perform spatialenvironmental impact assessment.
ecological-modelling environmental-modeling environmental-modelling
Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 4.4
HydroSight
A statistical toolbox for data-driven insights into groundwater dynamics and aquifer properties. Many hundreds of bores can be easily analysed, all without any programming.
aquifer-parameters groundwater hydrogeology hydrology matlab recharge timeseries
Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.8
LCIA formatter
A Python tool for standardizing the format and flows of life cycle impact assessment data.
Industrial Ecology - Life Cycle Assessment - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.9
EML
An open source, community oriented project dedicated to providing a high-quality metadata specification for describing data relevant to diverse disciplines that involve observational research like ecology, earth, and environmental science.
ecological-metadata-language eml metadata
Sustainable Development - Taxonomy and Ontology - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 8.3
carculator
Prospective environmental and economic life cycle assessment of vehicles made blazing fast.
Industrial Ecology - Life Cycle Assessment - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 11.7
Detect waste
Detecting plastic waste in the environment to combat environmental pollution and promote circular economy.
cnn deep-learning detr efficientdet fastrcnn litter maskrcnn neural-networks object-detection python pytorch trash waste-detection
Industrial Ecology - Circular Economy and Waste - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.5
Isca
A framework for the idealized modeling of the global circulation of planetary atmospheres at varying levels of complexity and realism.
atmospheric-modelling atmospheric-science climate-model geophysical-fluid-dynamics planetary-atmospheres
Atmosphere - Atmospheric Composition and Dynamics - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 8.6
wdpar
R Interface to the World Database on Protected Areas.
biodiversity conservation cran data database protected-areas r r-package rstats spatial
Biosphere - Conservation and Restoration - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 10.4
r2dii.match
These tools implement in R a fundamental part of the software PACTA (Paris Agreement Capital Transition Assessment), which is a free tool that calculates the alignment between financial portfolios and climate scenarios.
Sustainable Development - Sustainable Investment - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 11.3
pygac
A Python package to read and calibrate NOAA and Metop AVHRR GAC and LAC data.
avhrr calibration climate gac hacktoberfest lac metop navigation noaa radiometric satellite tiros
Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 12.7
Mobility
An open-source solution to compute the carbon emissions due to the mobility of a local population.
carbon carbon-footprint mobility open-source transport transportation
Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 9.6
NoiseModelling
A free and open source model to compute noise maps.
acoustics cnossos-eu gis java modelling noise noise-modelling noise-propagation pathfinder pathfinding propagation research sound-propagation
Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 8.8
forest-risks
Statistical models of forest carbon potential and risks.
Emissions - Carbon Offsets and Trading - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 10.2
hockeystick
Make essential Climate Change datasets easily available to non-climate experts.
carbon carbon-dioxide-data carbon-emissions climate climate-change climate-data climate-science ggplot2 methane noaa r rstats sea-ice sea-levels temperature-data warming-stripes
Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 10.8
WorldDynamics.jl
Aims to provide a modern framework to investigate integrated assessment models of sustainable development, based on current software engineering and scientific machine learning techniques.
hacktoberfest integrated-assessment-model julia sciml simulation world3
Climate Change - Integrated Assessment and Climate Policy - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity
EcoSonar
Enabling development teams to consider the environmental impact of digital technology during development and to promote knowledge of best eco-design and accessibility practices.
accessibility-testing best-practices ecodesign ecoindex greenit lighthouse monitoring rgaa rgesn sonarqube sonarqube-plugin
Consumption - Computation and Communication - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.2
Open Acidification Project
Apparatus to determine total alkalinity in sea water using an open-cell titration.
alkalinity-titrator ocean-acidification raspberry-pi
Hydrosphere - Ocean Carbon and Temperature - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.5
NicheMapR
Modelling the thermodynamic constraints on life.
Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.9
GlobalDeltaChange
A theoretical framework to predict delta morphology and delta change, and a set of codes to make this predictions on a global scale for about 11,000 deltas.
Hydrosphere - Ocean and Hydrology Data Access - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 4.6
pvcaptest
Collection of functions and Jupyter Notebooks to partially automate running a capacity test following ASTM E2848.
Renewable Energy - Photovoltaics and Solar Energy - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.3
pommesdispatch
A bottom-up fundamental power market model for the German electricity sector.
market modeling oemof opensource optimization power python
Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.0
CBE Clima Tool
A web-based application built to support the need of architects and engineers interested in climate-adapted design.
building-design clima climate-analysis epw epw-files python
Consumption - Buildings and Heating - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.8
DSWE
An R implementation of various data science methods for wind energy (DSWE) applications, such as providing machine learning methods to accurately estimate the wind power curve.
Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 10.0
globsim
Using global reanalyses for permafrost simulation.
Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 9.4
BG_Flood
The model is designed to simulate flood/inundation caused by tsunami, river, rain, tide or storm surge (from wind stress or atm pressure differential) or any combination of these.
adaptive flood gpu inundation rain river storm surge tsunami
Climate Change - Natural Hazard and Storm - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.1
Hagelslag
An object-based severe storm forecasting system that utilizing image processing and machine learning tools to derive calibrated probabilities of severe hazards from convection-allowing numerical weather prediction model output.
geojson hail hrrr machine-learning mrms netcdf performance performance-diagram python reliability segmentation storms tracking verification weather zarr
Climate Change - Natural Hazard and Storm - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 12.3
Coastwards
A global citizen science project to help scientists study the risks of sea-level rise.
citizen-science coast sea-level-rise
Hydrosphere - Coastal and Reefs - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.0
Urban Multi-scale Environmental Predictor
A climate service tool, designed for researchers and service providers presented as a plugin for QGIS.
qgis urban-climate urban-planning
Consumption - Buildings and Heating - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.1
brightway2
An open source framework for life cycle assessment.
bw2 documentation life-cycle-assessment python
Industrial Ecology - Life Cycle Assessment - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 14.4
EuroCrops
A dataset collection combining all publicly available self-declared crop reporting datasets from countries of the European Union.
agriculture dataset deep-learning machine-learning opendata sentinel-2
Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.1
pyet
Estimate reference and potential evaporation.
hydrological-modelling hydrology water
Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.3
rsat
Dealing with Multiplatform Satellite Images from Landsat, MODIS, and Sentinel.
Sustainable Development - Environmental Satellites - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 11.6
GasDispersion.jl
A set of tools for atmospheric dispersion modeling of gaseous releases, such as might occur during an emergency at a chemical plant or more routinely from a stack.
chemical-engineering process-safety
Atmosphere - Atmospheric Dispersion and Transport - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity
ERSEM
A marine biogeochemical and ecosystem model that describes the cycling of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, silicon, oxygen and iron through the lower trophic level pelagic and benthic ecosystems.
Hydrosphere - Ocean Carbon and Temperature - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.2
GeoPressureR
R package which help researchers construct the trajectory of a bird equiped with an atmospheric pressure sensor.
bird datalogger era5 geolocator migration pressure-sensor r tracker windspeed
Biosphere - Terrestrial Animals - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 3.6
ClimateTriage
Discover a meaningful way to contribute to open source projects focused on climate technology and sustainability.
climate climate-change first-good-issue sustainability
Sustainable Development - Knowledge Platforms - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.3
enmSdmX
A set of tools in R for implementing species distribution models and ecological niche models.
bias-correction biogeography ecological-niche-modeling ecological-niche-modelling niche-modeling niche-modelling species-distribution-modeling
Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 9.7
MSC AniMet
A simple tool enabling users to interact with MSC Open Data weather data and create custom weather animations for any area in the world.
animation canada data visualization weather wms
Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 4.8
FluxEngine
An open source atmosphere ocean gas flux data processing toolbox.
Hydrosphere - Ocean Carbon and Temperature - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.3
Eco-CI
Estimating the energy consumption of CI / CD pipelines on GitHub and GitLab.
Consumption - Computation and Communication - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.6
LandBOSSE
The Land-based Balance-of-System Systems Engineering model is a systems engineering tool that estimates the balance-of-system costs associated with installing utility scale wind plants (10, 1.5 MW turbines or larger).
Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 10.8
Climate categories
Commonly used codes, categories, terminologies, and nomenclatures used in climate policy analysis in a nice Python package.
Sustainable Development - Taxonomy and Ontology - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 10.2
onsset
A GIS based optimization tool that has been developed to support electrification planning and decision making for the achievement of energy access goals in currently unserved locations.
Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 10.8
tell
An open-source Python package to model future hourly total electricity loads.
Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 9.1
ClimDown
A Climate Downscaling package for the R statistical programming language.
Climate Change - Climate Downscaling - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.2
