Open Sustainable Technology
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RT1
A first order radiative transfer model for soil- and vegetation related parameter retrievals from radar-data.
microwave-remote-sensing python radiative-transfer remote-sensing soil-moisture vegetation
Atmosphere - Radiative Transfer - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.9

Awesome Remote Sensing Change Detection
List of datasets, codes, and contests related to remote sensing change detection.
awesome change-detection dataset remote-sensing
Sustainable Development - Curated Lists - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 9.1

DeepBedMap
Using a deep neural network to better resolve the bed topography of Antarctica.
antarctica bedmap binder chainer data-science deep-neural-network digital-elevation-model flat-file-db generative-adversarial-network glaciology jupyter-notebook optuna pangeo remote-sensing super-resolution
Cryosphere - Glacier and Ice Sheets - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.4

emissions-api
A solution that provides simple access to emissions data of climate-relevant gases.
air-quality citizen-science copernicus emissions-api esa hacktoberfest python remote-sensing sentinel-5
Emissions - Emission Observation and Modeling - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.0

Digital Forestry Toolbox
A collection of digital forestry tools for Matlab/Octave.
asprs digital-forestry-toolbox forest forestry laser laser-scanning lidar matlab octave point-cloud remote-sensing vegetation
Biosphere - Forest Observation and Management - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 3.8

nasa-wildfires
Download wildfire hotspots detected by NASA satellites and the Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS).
data-journalism firms geojson geospatial journalism nasa news python remote-sensing satellite-imagery satellites wildfires
Biosphere - Wildfire - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 9.8

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: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 14.2

Callisto-Dataset-Collection
A list of datasets aiming to enable Artificial Intelligence applications that use Earth Observation, satellite and other data.
data-repository dataset datasets deep-learning machine-learning machine-learning-datasets remote-sensing satellite-imagery
Sustainable Development - Curated Lists - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.8

cultionet
A library for semantic segmentation of cultivated land using a neural network.
agriculture cropland crops deep-learning fields land-cover pytorch pytorch-lightning remote-sensing satellite
Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.0

FarmVibes.AI
Can develop rich geospatial insights for agriculture and sustainability.
agriculture ai geospatial geospatial-analytics multi-modal remote-sensing stac sustainability weather
Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.5

MODISTools
Interface to the MODIS Land Products Subsets Web Services.
api remote-sensing satellite-data
Sustainable Development - Environmental Satellites - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 11.0

TATHU
A Python package for tracking and analyzing the life cycle of thunderstorms.
geospatial image-processing meteorology nowcasting radar remote-sensing satellite tracking
Climate Change - Natural Hazard and Storm - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 3.8

Custom Scripts Sentinel Hub
A repository of custom scripts to be used with Sentinel Hub.
earth-observation remote-sensing sentinel-hub
Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.4

SITS
Enables users to apply machine learning techniques for classifying image time series obtained from earth observation data cubes.
big-earth-data cbers earth-observation eo-datacubes geospatial image-time-series land-cover-classification landsat planetary-computer r-spatial remote-sensing rspatial satellite-image-time-series satellite-imagery sentinel-2 stac-api stac-catalog
Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 16.1

pytesmo
Python Toolbox for the Evaluation of Soil Moisture Observations.
earth-science python remote-sensing soil-moisture validation
Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: -Infinity

ismn
Readers for the data from the International Soil Moisture Database.
in-situ ismn remote-sensing soil-moisture
Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.0

Juelich Rapid Spectral Simulation Code
The Juelich Rapid Spectral Simulation Code (JURASSIC) is a fast infrared radiative transfer model for the analysis of atmospheric remote sensing measurements.
atmosphere atmospheric-science high-performance-computing infrared meteorology radiative-transfer remote-sensing stratosphere troposphere
Atmosphere - Radiative Transfer - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 2.8

ForesToolboxRS
Remote Sensing Tools for Forest Monitoring.
change-detection deforestation machine-learning remote-sensing
Biosphere - Forest Observation and Management - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 4.6

Digital Earth Australia Coastlines
Extracting tidally-constrained annual shorelines and robust rates of coastal change from freely available Earth observation data at continental scale.
coastal-change coastal-dynamics coastlines dea digitalearthaustralia earth-observation erosion geospatial gis jupyter-notebook opendatacube python remote-sensing satellite-imagery
Hydrosphere - Coastal and Reefs - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.3

xarray-sentinel
Easily access and explore the SAR data products of the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite mission in Python.
copernicus earth-observation radar remote-sensing sar satellite-imagery sentinel-1 synthetic-aperture-radar xarray
Sustainable Development - Environmental Satellites - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 13.1

blsp
A Bayesian hierarchical model that quantifies long-term annual land surface phenology from sparse time series of vegetation indices.
jags land-surface-modeling land-surface-phenology landsat phenology r remote-sensing
Biosphere - Plants and Vegetation - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.0

RUBEM
A distributed hydrological model to calculate monthly flows with changes in land use over time.
catchment grid hydrological-model hydrology pcraster remote-sensing simulation-model water
Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 3.3

awesome-gee-community-datasets
Community Datasets & Data Commons in Google Earth Engine.
awesome-list catalog community-datasets earth-engine geospatial geospatial-data gis google-earth-engine googleearthengine open-datasets remote-sensing
Sustainable Development - Curated Lists - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.5

CoastSat
Enables users to obtain time-series of shoreline position at any coastline worldwide from 30+ years of publicly available satellite imagery.
coastal-engineering earth-engine google-earth-engine remote-sensing satellite-images shoreline-detection
Hydrosphere - Coastal and Reefs - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 16.3

WhiteboxTools
WhiteboxTools is an advanced geospatial data analysis platform.
geomorphology geomorphometry geoprocessing geospatial gis hydrology remote-sensing
Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.4

landsatxplore
Provides an interface to the EarthExplorer portal to search and download Landsat Collections scenes through a command-line interface or a Python API.
earth-observation landsat remote-sensing
Sustainable Development - Environmental Satellites - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 14.3

pylandtemp
Global land surface temperature and emissivity from NASA's Landsat satellite images.
climate earth-observation earth-science geodata geospatial image-processing landsat landsat-8 landsat-data nasa-api nasa-data python raster remote-sensing satellite-data satellite-imagery-analysis satellite-images
Climate Change - Climate Data Visualization and Access - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 11.5

sentinelsat
Makes searching, downloading and retrieving the metadata of Sentinel satellite images from the Copernicus Open Access Hub easy.
copernicus esa geographic-data hacktoberfest open-data remote-sensing satellite-imagery sentinel
Sustainable Development - Environmental Satellites - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 20.5

openEO
Provides intuitive programming libraries to process a wide variety of earth observation datasets.
earth-observation openeo python remote-sensing
Sustainable Development - Environmental Satellites - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 17.1

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: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 13.9

phenofit
A state-of-the-art remote sensing vegetation phenology extraction package.
Biosphere - Plants and Vegetation - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 4.2

DetecTree
A Pythonic library to classify tree/non-tree pixels from aerial imagery.
image-segmentation python remote-sensing tree-canopy tree-detection tree-pixels
Biosphere - Forest Observation and Management - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.5

phenocamr
Facilitates the retrieval and post-processing of PhenoCam time series.
phenocam phenocam-data phenology-modelling remote-sensing
Biosphere - Terrestrial Animals - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.7

https://github.com/nsidc/earthaccess
Python Library for NASA Earthdata APIs
access climate-data cloud-computing cmr data gis nasa nasa-api nasa-data open-science openscience pangeo remote-sensing
Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 16.1

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: 01 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.6

OBIA4RTM
Aims for plant parameter retrieval - relevant in smart farming applications - by using radiative transfer models and object-based image analysis that directly addresses actual user needs and policy demands in a highly efficient, flexible and scalable way.
google-earth-engine image-analysis imagery obia remote remote-sensing rtm sentinel-2 vegetation
Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 01 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.9

Trends.Earth
A QGIS plugin that supports monitoring of land change, including changes in productivity, land cover, and soil organic carbon.
climate climate-change conservation conservation-international earth gef land land-degradation ldn natural-climate-solutions python qgis-plugin remote-sensing sdgs sustainable-development-goals toolbox trends unccd
Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 01 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.5

biodivMapR
An R package for α- and β-diversity mapping using remotely-sensed images.
biodiversity diversity-mapping hyperspectral-imaging remote-sensing sentinel-2 tropical-forest
Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 01 Dec 2023 - Ranking: -Infinity

GLAFT
Python module for assessing glacier velocity maps using statistics- and physics-based metrics.
cryosphere glaciers python remote-sensing science
Cryosphere - Glacier and Ice Sheets - Last synced: 01 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.5

Py6S
A Python interface to the 6S Radiative Transfer Model.
atmosphere python radiative-transfer remote-sensing satellite science
Atmosphere - Radiative Transfer - Last synced: 01 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 9.6

X-STILT
An atmospheric transport model that deals with vertically integrated column CO2 and potentially other trace gases.
atmospheric-modelling column-transport-error remote-sensing urban-emission
Emissions - Emission Observation and Modeling - Last synced: 01 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 3.2

waterquality
A package designed to detect and quantify water quality and cyanobacterial harmful algal bloom (CHABs) from remotely sensed imagery.
algal-bloom algorithms landsat-8 meris modis olci remote-sensing sentinel-2 water-quality
Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 01 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.7

HYDRAFloods
An open source Python application for downloading, processing, and delivering surface water maps derived from remote sensing data.
earth-engine flood google-cloud near-real-time remote-sensing surface-water
Climate Change - Natural Hazard and Storm - Last synced: 01 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 13.8

FLOODPY
A free and open-source python toolbox for mapping of floodwater.
flood flood-monitoring floods python remote-sensing sentinel-1 surface-water synthetic-aperture-radar
Climate Change - Natural Hazard and Storm - Last synced: 30 Nov 2023 - Ranking: 6.8
