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 Remote Sensing - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 23.2
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: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 21.1
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: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 19.8
dataRetrieval
This R package is designed to obtain USGS or EPA water quality sample data, streamflow data and metadata directly from web services.
Natural Resources - Water Supply and Quality - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 19.7
eurostat R package
R tools to access open data from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.
cran eurostat eurostat-data r r-package ropengov
Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 19.7
tidyhydat
An R package to import Water Survey of Canada hydrometric data and make it tidy.
citz government-data hydrology hydrometrics r r-package rstats tidy-data water-resources
Hydrosphere - Ocean and Hydrology Data Access - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 18.6
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: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 18.4
GSODR
Global Surface Summary of the Day Weather Data Client for R.
daily-data daily-weather data-access global-data gsod historical-data historical-weather ncdc ncei r r-package rstats weather weather-data weather-information weather-stations
Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 18.3
rredlist
An R client for the IUCN Red List of threatened and endangered species.
api-wrapper biodiversity conservation iucn iucn-red-list r r-package rstats taxize
Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Access and Management - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 18.2
stationaRy
Get hourly meteorological data from one of thousands of global stations.
Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 17.6
metR
Several functions and utilities that make R better for handling meteorological data in the tidy data paradigm.
atmospheric-science ggplot2 r r-package rstats visualization
Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 17.5
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: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 17.3
climate
The goal of the climate R package is to automatize downloading of meteorological and hydrological data from publicly available repositories.
climate climate-data imgw meteorological-data meteorology noaa-data ogimet r r-package sounding
Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 16.8
rfisheries
Interacting with fisheries databases at openfisheries.org.
fisheries open-data openfisheries r r-package rstats
Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 16.7
Fisheries Stock Assessment
Provides R functions to conduct typical introductory fisheries analyses.
fish fisheries fisheries-management fisheries-stock-assessment population-dynamics r stock-assessment
Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 16.6
oce
An R package for oceanographic processing.
Hydrosphere - Ocean and Hydrology Data Access - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 16.4
sdmTMB
An R package that fits spatial and spatiotemporal predictive-processes for species distribution models.
ecology glmm r spatial-analysis species-distribution-modelling tmb
Biosphere - Species Distribution Modeling - Last synced: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 16.2
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 and Quality - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 16.2
landscapemetrics
Landscape Metrics for Categorical Map Patterns in R.
landscape-ecology landscape-metrics r raster spatial
Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 16.1
r4ss
A fisheries stock assessment model written by Rick Methot.
fisheries fisheries-stock-assessment r rstats stock-synthesis
Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 15.8
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: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 15.8
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: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 15.6
rvertnet
An R Wrapper to the VertNet API, a collaborative project that makes biodiversity data free and available on the web.
api-wrapper biodiversity r r-package rstats specimen spocc vertnet
Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Access and Management - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 15.6
OBI
The Open-Bodem-Index-Calculator is a tool that evaluates the soil of agricultural fields based on four main criteria: chemical, physical, biological and management.
Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 15.3
rsoi
An R package to download the most up to date climate indices.
cran oceanic-nino oceanography r
Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 15.3
CoordinateCleaner
Automated flagging of common spatial and temporal errors in biological and palaeontological collection data, for the use in conservation, ecology and palaeontology.
Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Cleaning and Standardization - Last synced: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 14.7
eeExtra
A ninja python package that unifies the Google Earth Engine ecosystem.
dataviz earth-engine geographic-information-systems gis google-earth-engine javascript landsat modis python python3 r remote-sensing rstats satellite-imagery sentinel
Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 14.7
giscoR
An R API package that helps to retrieve data from Eurostat Geographic Information System of the Commission.
api-wrapper cran cran-r eurostat eurostat-data ggplot2 gis gisco r r-package ropengov rstats spatial thematic-maps
Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 14.6
prioritizr
Uses mixed integer linear programming techniques to provide a flexible interface for building and solving conservation planning problems.
biodiversity conservation conservation-planner optimization prioritization r rstats solver spatial
Biosphere - Conservation and Restoration - Last synced: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 14.4
vegperiod
Provides methods to calculate climatological or thermal growing seasons solely based on daily mean temperatures and the day of the year.
dwd growing-season r r-package vegetation-period
Biosphere - Plants and Vegetation - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 14.2
bioRad
R package for analysis and visualisation of biological signals in weather radar data.
aeroecology enram eumetnet-opera lifewatch movement-ecology nexrad oscibio package r radar weather-radar wsr-88d
Biosphere - Avian Monitoring and Analysis - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 14.2
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: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 14.0
ss3sim
An R package that facilitates flexible, rapid, and reproducible fisheries stock assessment simulation testing with the widely-used Stock Synthesis statistical age-structured stock assessment framework.
fisheries r r-package simulation stock-synthesis
Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 13.9
spatialEco
R package for spatial analysis and modelling of ecological systems.
biodiversity conservation cran ecology r r-package r-spatial raster spatial vector
Biosphere - Ecological and Environmental Modeling - Last synced: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 13.5
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 System Modeling Frameworks - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 13.0
mizer
An R package to run dynamic multi-species size-spectrum models of fish communities.
ecosystem-model fish-population-dynamics fisheries fisheries-management marine-ecosystem population-dynamics r simulation size-structure species-interactions transport-equation
Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 13.0
climaemet
An interface to download the climatic data of the Spanish Meteorological Agency directly from R using their API and create scientific graphs.
aemet climate cran data forecast-api r r-package ropenspain rstats science spain weather-api
Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 12.7
rFIA
Increase the accessibility and use of the USFS Forest Inventory and Analysis Database by providing a user-friendly, open source platform to easily query and analyze.
compute-estimates fia fia-database fia-datamart forest-inventory forest-variables inventories r space-time spatial
Biosphere - Forest Observation and Management - Last synced: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 12.6
lterdatasampler
Provide the scientific community, policy makers, and society with the knowledge and predictive understanding necessary to conserve, protect, and manage the nation's ecosystems, their biodiversity, and the services they provide.
data-science ecology lter-science r r-package
Biosphere - Conservation and Restoration - Last synced: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 12.2
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: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 12.2
eplusr
Provides a rich toolkit of using whole building energy simulation program EnergyPlus directly in R, which enables programmatic navigation, modification of EnergyPlus, conducts parametric simulations and retrieves outputs.
energy-simulation energyplus energyplus-models eplus epw idd idf parametric-simulation r r6 simulation
Consumption - Buildings and Heating - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 12.2
accessibility
Given a pre-computed travel cost matrix and a land use dataset (containing the location of jobs, healthcare and population, for example), the package allows one to calculate accessibility levels and accessibility poverty and inequality.
accessibility r transport transport-accessibility
Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 12.1
antaresViz
Visualize the results of Antares, an Open Source power system simulator meant to be used by anybody placing value in quantifying the adequacy or the economic performance of interconnected energy systems, at short or remote time horizons.
adequacy bilan dygraphs electric energy leaflet linear-programming manipulatewidge monte-carlo-simulation optimization plotly previsionnel r renewable-energy rte shiny shiny-apps simulation stochastic-simulation-algorithm tyndp
Energy Systems - Energy System Modeling Frameworks - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 12.0
Geocomputation with R
A book on geographic data analysis, visualization and modeling with R.
book course education gdal geo geocomputation geocompx geography geos geospatial geospatial-data mapping-tools maps postgis r raster rspatial rstats simple-features spatial
Sustainable Development - Education - Last synced: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 11.9
PEcAn
The Predictive Ecosystem Analyzer is an integrated ecological bioinformatics toolbox.
bayesian cyberinfrastructure data-assimilation data-science ecosystem-model ecosystem-science forecasting meta-analysis national-science-foundation pecan plants r
Biosphere - Ecological and Environmental Modeling - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 11.9
tidysdm
A Species Distribution Models in R.
r species-distribution-modelling tidymodels
Biosphere - Species Distribution Modeling - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 11.7
weatherOz
Aims to facilitate access and download weather and climate data for Australia from Australian data sources.
api-client australia climate data r rainfall rstats weather weather-api weather-forecast
Climate Change - Climate Data Processing and Analysis - Last synced: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 11.6
cyclestreets
The goal of cyclestreets is to provide a simple R interface to the CycleStreets routing service.
cycling r routing transport transportation-planning
Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Last synced: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 11.4
spatialwarnings
An R package to compute spatial early-warning signals of ecosystem degradation.
catastrophic critical ecology indicators points r shifts space transitions
Biosphere - Conservation and Restoration - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 11.4
fundiversity
Provides a lightweight package to compute common functional diversity indices.
biodiversity biodiversity-indicators biodiversity-informatics functional-diversity functional-ecology functional-trait functional-traits r r-package trait trait-based traits
Biosphere - Biodiversity Analysis and Metrics - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 11.3
R-ecology-lesson
Data Analysis and Visualization in R for Ecologists.
carpentries data-carpentry data-visualisation data-visualization data-wrangling ecology english lesson open-educational-resources r stable
Sustainable Development - Education - Last synced: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 11.2
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: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 11.2
gtfs2emis
Estimating public transport emissions from GTFS data.
emissions environmental-modelling gtfs public-transport r rspatial transport
Emissions - Emission Observation and Modeling - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 11.0
taxize
Allows users to search over many taxonomic data sources for species names (scientific and common) and download up and downstream taxonomic hierarchical information.
api api-wrapper biodiversity biology darwincore data nomenclature r r-package rstats taxize taxonomy
Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Access and Management - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 11.0
modisfast
An R package designed for easy and fast downloads of MODIS Land products, VIIRS Land products, and GPM (Global Precipitation Measurement Mission) Earth Observation data.
data-cube earth-science-data environmental-data gpm land modis nasa opendap precipitation-data r temperature-data vegetation-data viirs
Sustainable Development - Taxonomy and Ontology - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 10.8
grainscape
Efficient Modelling of Landscape Connectivity, Habitat, and Protected Area Networks.
habitat-connectivity landscape-connectivity r r-package spatial-graphs
Biosphere - Conservation and Restoration - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 10.7
rcites
An R package to access information from the Speciesplus database, a centralised portal to key information on species of global concern.
api-client cites database endangered-species r r-package rstats trade
Biosphere - Terrestrial Wildlife - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 10.6
OpenLand
Tool for Quantitative Analysis and Visualization of Land Use and Land Cover Change.
geography geospatial intensity-analysis land-use-and-land-cover-change luc-maps lulc plot r rasters
Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 10.3
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: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 10.3
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: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 10.1
geohabnet
Enable users to visualise a habitat connectivity risk index for agriculture using their own
agriculture crop geographical-information-system geography network-analysis networks r surveillance
Biosphere - Conservation and Restoration - Last synced: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 10.0
toxpiR
R package for the Toxicological Priority Index (ToxPi) prioritization algorithm.
data-science modeling r r-package toxicology
Natural Resources - Ecotoxicology - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 9.8
burnr
Basic tools to analyze forest fire history data (e.g. FHX) in R.
citation cran dendrochronology ecology forestfire plot r scientific statistics
Biosphere - Wildfire - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 9.8
SDG Detector
Identify and visualize 17 Sustainable Development Goals and associated 169 Targets in text.
cran r r-package sdg sdgs sustainability sustainable-development-goals text-mining
Sustainable Development - Sustainable Development Goals - Last synced: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 9.7
ColOpenData
A package that acquires and wrangles Colombian socioeconomic, geospatial and climate data.
climate colombia data-package demographics maps r r-package
Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 9.6
intensegRid
Provides information on national and regional carbon intensity, the amount of carbon emitted per unit of energy consumed, for the UK.
carbon-api carbon-emissions carbon-intensity climate-change hacktoberfest r
Emissions - Carbon Intensity and Accounting - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 9.3
Intro to R for Geospatial data
Provides an introduction to R for learners working with geospatial data.
carpentries data-carpentry data-visualisation data-visualization data-wrangling english geospatial geospatial-data lesson open-educational-resources r stable
Sustainable Development - Education - Last synced: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 9.0
RFishBC
Helps fisheries scientists collect measurements from calcified structures and back-calculate estimated lengths at previous ages.
fish fisheries fisheries-management fisheries-stock-assessment population-dynamics r stock-assessment
Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 8.9
Datasets APIs and open source projects related to Climate Change
A curated list of APIs, open data and ML/AI projects on climate change.
climate climate-analysis climate-change climate-data data data-science datascience hacktoberfest python r resources rstats
Sustainable Development - Curated Lists - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 8.8
openair
An R package developed for the purpose of analyzing air quality data — or more generally atmospheric composition data.
air-quality air-quality-data meteorology openair package r
Natural Resources - Air Quality - Last synced: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 8.7
fishRman
Shiny R Dashboard to easily query, download, analyse and visualise Global Fishing Watch data on fishing effort.
dashboard fisheries fisheries-management fisheries-research fishing-effort global-fishing-watch globalfishingwatch marine-biology open-source r r-package shiny
Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 7.9
spocc
An R package to query and collect species occurrence data from many sources.
antweb api bison data ebird ecoengine gbif idigbio inaturalist obis occurrence r r-package rstats species species-occurrence spocc vertnet
Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Access and Management - Last synced: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 7.7
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: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 7.7
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: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 7.7
EGRET
An R package for the analysis of long-term changes in water quality and streamflow, including the water-quality method Weighted Regressions on Time, Discharge, and Season.
r r-package rstats usgs water-quality water-quality-data
Natural Resources - Water Supply and Quality - Last synced: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 7.5
rTwig
A method for correcting unrealistic cylinders in quantitative structure models (QSMs) due to technical limitations of current LiDAR sensor technology in forestry measurements.
forestry lidar modeling qsm r r-package rcpp rpackage
Biosphere - Forest Remote Sensing - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 7.5
rSFSW2
An R package to create soil water balance simulation experiment.
r r-package simulation-framework soil-water-balance
Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 7.3
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: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 7.2
Free Earth Data Science Courses & Textbooks
A site dedicated to tutorials, course and other learning materials and resources developed by the Earth Lab team.
earth earth-data earth-science python r tutorial
Sustainable Development - Education - Last synced: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 7.1
plant
A package for modeling forest trait ecology and evolution.
c-plus-plus demography dynamic ecology evolution forests plant-physiology r science-research simulation trait
Biosphere - Plants and Vegetation - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 7.0
worrms
A R client for the World Register of Marine Species.
api-wrapper biological-data biology fish jerico-relevant marine-biology marine-species r r-package rstats taxize taxonomy
Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 6.8
gfwr
R package for accessing data from Global Fishing Watch APIs.
ais ais-data api-wrapper globalfishingwatch mapping r
Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 6.6
nasapower
Aims to make it quick and easy to automate downloading NASA-POWER global meteorology, surface solar energy and climatology data in your R session as a tidy data frame tibble object for analysis and use in modeling or other purposes.
agroclimatology agroclimatology-data data-access earth-science nasa nasa-power r r-package rstats weather weather-data weather-variables
Renewable Energy - Photovoltaics and Solar Energy - Last synced: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 6.4
rWBclimate
An R interface for the World Bank climate data used in the World Bank climate knowledge portal.
Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 6.4
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: 18 May 2025 - Ranking: 6.2
HASP
Hydrologic AnalySis Package.
groundwater groundwater-level r r-package rstats
Natural Resources - Water Supply and Quality - Last synced: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 6.1
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: 19 May 2025 - Ranking: 6.0
