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

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: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 21.1

dataRetrieval

This R package is designed to obtain USGS or EPA water quality sample data, streamflow data and metadata directly from web services.

r r-package rstats usgs

Natural Resources - Water Supply and Quality - Last synced: 26 Apr 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: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 19.7

rfishbase

An R interface to the fishbase.org database.

fish fishbase r r-package rstats taxonomy

Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 19.5

rotl

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

peer-reviewed phylogeny r r-package rstats taxonomy

Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Access and Management - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 18.8

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: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 18.6

PRISM

Download data from the Oregon PRISM climate data project.

r r-package rstats

Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 18.5

traits

R package for accessing species trait data from multiple databases.

api-client r r-package rstats species traits

Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Access and Management - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 18.4

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: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 18.3

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: 26 Apr 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: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 18.0

rnpn

R client for interacting with the USA National Phenology Network data web services.

data national-phenology-network phenology r r-package rstats species web-api

Biosphere - Plants and Vegetation - Last synced: 26 Apr 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: 26 Apr 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: 26 Apr 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: 26 Apr 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: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 16.7

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: 26 Apr 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: 26 Apr 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: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 15.6

CoordinateCleaner

Automated flagging of common spatial and temporal errors in biological and palaeontological collection data, for the use in conservation, ecology and palaeontology.

r r-package rstats

Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Cleaning and Standardization - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 14.6

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: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 14.6

LWFBrook90R

Simulates daily transpiration, interception, soil and snow evaporation, streamflow and soil water fluxes through a soil profile covered with vegetation.

evapotranspiration modeling r-package waterbalance waterflux

Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 14.6

baytrends

Evaluate long-term trends in the Chesapeake Bay using a Generalized Additive Modeling approach.

r-package

Hydrosphere - Coastal and Reefs - Last synced: 26 Apr 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: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 14.1

ecmwfr

Provides easy access to the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts web API services and Copernicus Climate Data Store from within R, matching and expanding upon the ECMWF Python tools.

cds climate-data copernicus ecmwf-api ecmwf-services r-package rstats

Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 14.1

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: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 13.9

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: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 13.7

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: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 13.5

gtfs-router

An R package for routing with GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification) data.

gtfs gtfsrouter public-transportation r-package router

Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 12.8

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: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 12.8

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: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 12.8

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: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 12.2

owidR

An R Package for Interacting with Data from Our World in Data.

data data-visualisation economics r r-package

Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 12.2

daymetr

Allows for easy downloads of Daymet climate data directly to your R workspace or your computer.

climate-data data-science daymet gridded-data netcdf ornl-daac r-package rstats

Climate Change - Climate Data Processing and Analysis - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 12.1

MODISTools

Interface to the MODIS Land Products Subsets Web Services.

api r-package remote-sensing rstats satellite-data

Sustainable Development - Environmental Satellites - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 11.8

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: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 11.5

EIA

An R package wrapping the US Energy Information Administration open data API.

cran eia eia-api energy-data energy-information-administration open-data r-package

Energy Systems - Energy Data Accessibility and Integration - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 11.4

easyclimate

Easy access to high-resolution daily climate data for Europe.

climate-data europe r-package

Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 11.4

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: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 11.2

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: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 11.0

snotelr

R toolbox to facilitate easy SNOTEL data exploration and downloads through a convenient shiny based GUI.

climate-data data-retrieval precipitation-data r-package rstats snotel snow

Cryosphere - Snow and Permafrost - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 10.9

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: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 10.9

funrar

A package to compute functional rarity indices, it quantifies how species are rare both from a functional and an extent point of view.

ecological-models ecology r r-package rarity traits

Biosphere - Biodiversity Analysis and Metrics - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 10.9

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: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 10.6

toxpiR

R package for the Toxicological Priority Index (ToxPi) prioritization algorithm.

data-science modeling r r-package toxicology

Natural Resources - Ecotoxicology - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 10.0

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: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 9.8

rnoaa

An R interface to many National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data sources.

climate noaa noaa-data r r-package rstats

Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 9.7

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: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 9.7

rgbif

Interface to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility API.

api biodiversity data gbif lifewatch oscibio r r-package rstats species spocc

Biosphere - Biodiversity Data Access and Management - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 9.5

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: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 8.1

FIMS

A software system designed and architected to support next-generation fisheries stock assessment, ecosystem, and socioeconomic modeling.

noaa-nsap r-package stock-assessment

Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 7.8

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: 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.

forestry lidar modeling qsm r r-package rcpp rpackage

Biosphere - Forest Remote Sensing - Last synced: 26 Apr 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: 26 Apr 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: 26 Apr 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: 26 Apr 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: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 7.2

FMT

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

fmt forest-management forest-planning forestry optimization python-library r-package simulation

Biosphere - Forest Observation and Management - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 7.1

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: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 6.8

rWBclimate

An R interface for the World Bank climate data used in the World Bank climate knowledge portal.

r r-package rstats

Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 6.4

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: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 6.4

phenor

The framework leverages measurements of vegetation phenology from four common phenology observation datasets combined with global retrospective and projected climate data.

model-calibration phenocam phenology-models r-package rstats vegetation-phenology

Biosphere - Plants and Vegetation - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 6.4

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: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 6.2

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: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 6.2

HASP

Hydrologic AnalySis Package.

groundwater groundwater-level r r-package rstats

Natural Resources - Water Supply and Quality - Last synced: 26 Apr 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: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 6.0

RBBGCMuso

A software package that supports the application of the Biome-BGCMuSo biogeochemical mode, which simulates the storage and fluxes of water, carbon and nitrogen between the ecosystem and the atmosphere, and within the components of the terrestrial ecosystem.

biogeochemical-model ecosystem-model interface model optimization-tools r r-package

Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 5.9

LandR

These models simulate forest vegetation dynamics based on LANDIS-II, and incorporate fire and insect disturbance, as well as other important ecological processes.

ecological-modelling landscape-ecosystem-modelling r-package spades

Biosphere - Forest Modeling and Analysis - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 5.8

CliFlo

Easily download and visualise climate data from New Zealand's National Climate Database.

climate-data climate-stations kml national-climate-database r r-package rstats weather windrose zealand

Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 5.7

BirdFlowR

Predict changes in bird distributions and generate synthetic migration routes.

bird-migration birds ebird ecology r-package

Biosphere - Avian Monitoring and Analysis - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 5.7

portalcasting

Provides a model development, deployment, and evaluation system for forecasting how ecological systems change through time, with a focus on a widely used long-term study of mammal population and community dynamics.

ecology forecasting portal r r-package r-stats reproducible-research shiny workflow

Biosphere - Ecological and Environmental Modeling - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 5.7

wildRtrax

An R package for environmental sensor data management and analytics.

bioacoustics biodiversity-data r-package

Biosphere - Bioacoustics and Acoustic Data Analysis - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 5.5

wopr

An R package and Shiny application to provide API access to the WorldPop Open Population Repository.

bayesian-methods population-model r-package shiny-apps

Sustainable Development - Population and Poverty - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 5.3

iotables

Reproducible input-output economic analysis, economic and environmental impact assessment with empirical data.

r r-package rstats

Industrial Ecology - Input Output Model - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 5.2

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: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 4.9

fluvgeo

An R Package for Performing Fluvial Geomrphology Analysis.

channel-morphology floodplain-reconnection fluvial-geomorphology fluvial-process hydraulic-geometry lidar r r-package river-engineering watershed-assessment

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Last synced: 27 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 4.6

qualR

Download of air pollutants and meteorological information from CETESB QUALAR System for São Paulo, and MonitorAr Program, for Rio de Janeiro.

air-pollutants air-quality-data air-quality-measurements brazil cetesb r r-package rio-de-janeiro rstats sao-paulo weather-data

Natural Resources - Air Quality - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 4.6

BioMonTools

Tools for biomonitoring and bioassessment; metric calculation for benthic macroinvertebrates, fish, and periphyton.

benthic bioassessment biomonitoring fish macorinvertebrates metric periphyton r-package rbp

Biosphere - Biodiversity Analysis and Metrics - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 4.5

oneimpact

Provides tools for the assessment of cumulative impacts of multiple infrastructure and land use modifications in ecological studies.

biodiversity cumulative-impacts grass-gis r r-package

Biosphere - Biodiversity Analysis and Metrics - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 4.4

canwqdata

An R package to download open water quality data from Environment and Climate Change Canada's National Long-term Water Quality Monitoring Data.

data-science env r r-package rlang rstats

Natural Resources - Water Supply and Quality - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 4.1

fellingdater

A suite of functions designed to assist dendrochronologists in inferring estimates for felling dates, derived from dated tree-ring series.

dendrochronology r r-package rstats sapwood tree-rings

Biosphere - Forest Modeling and Analysis - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 3.8

rCAX

A collaborative process to efficiently share and provide access to standardized derived information, such as fish population-scale high-level indicators (HLIs) and supporting metrics.

noaa r-package rest-api salmon

Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 3.7

extractOz

Extract the Global Runoff Data Centre agroecological zone, major soil order and weather data from your GPS sampling points.

agriculture agriculture-data agriculture-research agroecology australia r-package soils soils-data weather weather-data

Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 26 Apr 2025 - Ranking: 2.8

wqbc

An R package for water quality thresholds and index calculation for British Columbia.

data-science env r r-package rstats

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