Open Sustainable Technology

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riem

Allows to get weather data from ASOS airports stations all around the globe.

airports asos iowa-environment-mesonet metar peer-reviewed r r-package rstats temperature weather weather-api

Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.1

rrricanes

An R library that extracts information from Atlantic and east Pacific hurricanes and tropical storms.

hurricane peer-reviewed r r-package rstats weather

Climate Change - Natural Hazard and Storm - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.2

smapr

An R package for acquisition and processing of NASA (Soil Moisture Active-Passive) SMAP data.

acquisition extract-data nasa peer-reviewed r r-package raster rstats smap-data soil-mapping soil-moisture soil-moisture-sensor

Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 12.1

rdefra

Interact with the UK AIR Pollution Database from DEFRA.

air-pollution air-pollution-levels air-quality defra peer-reviewed r r-package rstats uk

Natural Resources - Air Quality - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 4.7

hydroscoper

An R interface to the Greek National Data Bank for Hydrometeorological Information.

climate greece hydrology hydrometeorology hydroscope meteorological-data meteorological-stations peer-reviewed r r-package rstats tidy-data time-series water-resources

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 15.3

weathercan

This package makes it easier to search for and download multiple months/years of historical weather data from the Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) website.

environment-canada peer-reviewed r r-package rstats weather-data weather-downloader

Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.8

MODIStsp

An R package for automatic download and preprocessing of MODIS Land Products Time-Series.

gdal modis modis-data modis-land-products peer-reviewed preprocessing r r-package remote-sensing rstats satellite-imagery time-series

Sustainable Development - Environmental Satellites - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 13.8

NLMR

R package to simulate neutral landscape models.

landscape-ecology neutral-landscape-model peer-reviewed r r-package rstats spatial

Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.1

getCRUCLdata

Provides functions that automate importing CRU CL v. 2.0 climatology data into R.

climate-data cru cru-cl2 data-access diurnal-temperature elevation frost peer-reviewed r r-package rainfall relative-humidity rstats solar-radiation temperature wind

Climate Change - Climate Data Processing and Analysis - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 4.4

stplanr

A package for sustainable transport planning with R.

cycle cycling desire-lines origin-destination peer-reviewed pubic-transport r r-package route-network routes routing rstats spatial transport transport-planning transportation walking

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 21.0

rotl

An R package to interact with the Open Tree of Life data APIs.

peer-reviewed phylogeny r r-package rstats taxonomy

Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 14.8

hddtools

An open source project designed to facilitate access to a variety of online open data sources relevant for hydrologists and, in general, environmental scientists and practitioners.

data60uk grdc hydrology kgclimateclass mopex peer-reviewed precipitation r r-package rstats sepa

Hydrosphere - Ocean and Hydrology Data Access - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.0

FedData

R package implementing functions to automate downloading geospatial data available from several federated data sources in hydology, soil, climatology, cropland or landcover.

peer-reviewed r r-package rstats

Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 12 May 2024 - Ranking: 18.4