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

pyinaturalist

Python client for iNaturalist, a community science platform that helps people get involved in the natural world by observing and identifying the living things around them.

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Biosphere - Biodiversity Citizen Science - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 15.4

KSO

The Koster Seafloor Observatory is an open-source, citizen science and machine learning approach to analyse subsea movies.

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Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 12.5

PlanktoScope

A modular, open-source hardware and software platform that allows for high-throughput quantitative imaging of plankton samples in aquatic biology and ecology.

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Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 7.7

GeoNature-citizen

A free and Open Source web solution for citizen science projects for biodiversity data collection.

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Biosphere - Biodiversity Citizen Science - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 7.7

emissions-api

A solution that provides simple access to emissions data of climate-relevant gases.

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Emissions - Emission Observation and Modeling - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 7.1

Climate Data Rescue

This application seeks to aid in the digitization of paper records through the crowd-sourced transcription of scanned image files, particularly documents ill-suited for Optical Character Recognition.

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Climate Change - Climate Data Processing and Analysis - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 6.3

KnowFlow

KnowFlow Automatic Water Monitoring device is an open source tool enabling everyone to have access to first hand water quality data with low cost.

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Natural Resources - Water Supply and Quality - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 6.2

deep-smoke-machine

Deep learning models and dataset for recognizing industrial smoke emissions.

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Emissions - Emission Observation and Modeling - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 5.5

Coastwards

A global citizen science project to help scientists study the risks of sea-level rise.

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Hydrosphere - Coastal and Reefs - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 5.0

Surfrider Plastic Origins

A citizen science project that uses AI to map plastic pollution in European rivers and share its data publicly.

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Industrial Ecology - Circular Economy and Waste - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 4.6

OSDG Community Dataset

A public dataset of thousands of text excerpts, validated by OSDG Community Platform citizen scientists with respect to the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Sustainable Development - Sustainable Development Goals - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 4.6