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

lidR

An R package for airborne LiDAR data manipulation and visualization for forestry application.

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Biosphere - Forest Remote Sensing - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 23.2

allometric

An R package for predicting tree attributes with allometric models.

carbon forest-inventory forestry

Biosphere - Forest Modeling and Analysis - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 12.3

pyfor

Tools for analyzing aerial point clouds of forest data.

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Biosphere - Forest Remote Sensing - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 10.8

Awesome-forests

A curated list of ground-truth forest datasets for the machine learning and forestry community.

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Sustainable Development - Curated Lists - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 7.8

Arena

A cloud-based platform that enables fast, flexible setup and data entry for various field surveys, including biophysical, socio-economic, and biodiversity inventories.

forestry

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

rTwig

A method for correcting unrealistic cylinders in quantitative structure models (QSMs) due to technical limitations of current LiDAR sensor technology in forestry measurements.

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Biosphere - Forest Remote Sensing - Last synced: 27 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 7.7

FMT

An open source forest management library that makes forest planning easier.

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Biosphere - Forest Observation and Management - Last synced: 27 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 7.1

Forest Vegetation Simulator

A family of individual-tree, distance-independent, forest growth simulation models.

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Biosphere - Forest Modeling and Analysis - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 7.1

Castor

A spatial, large-scale analytical model for simulating forest harvest and it's potential influence on other forest values (e.g., wildlife habitat).

caribou for forest-analysis forestry

Biosphere - Forest Observation and Management - Last synced: 27 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 5.7

knfi

An R package was developed to efficiently manage and analyze large-scale National Forest Inventory (NFI) data in South Korea, streamlining the process of monitoring forest ecosystem changes using extensive nationwide survey data.

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Biosphere - Forest Observation and Management - Last synced: 27 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 5.6

WeeForest

Aims to make the data about trees in Great Britain more accessible and understandable, whilst still maintaining good industry practices.

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Biosphere - Forest Observation and Management - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 3.9

NCX Harvest Deferral Methodology

Documents, Data, and Code for the NCX Methodology For Improved Forest Management Through Short-Term Harvest Deferral.

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Emissions - Carbon Offsets and Trading - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 3.7

DiversiTree

Help urban foresters, planners, greeners, and ecologists in quantifying tree ecosystem diversity in cities.

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Biosphere - Forest Observation and Management - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 3.7

forestables

Read and uniformize forest inventories data from the FIA (USA forest inventory), FFI (France forest inventory) and IFN (Spain forest inventory).

forestry opendata r

Biosphere - Forest Observation and Management - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 3.4