Open Sustainable Technology

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Digital Earth Australia Notebooks

Hosts Jupyter Notebooks, Python scripts and workflows for analysing Digital Earth Australia (DEA) satellite data and derived products.

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Sustainable Development - Knowledge Platforms - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 18.0

SpaceLiDAR

A Julia toolbox for ICESat, ICESat-2 and GEDI data to quickly search, download, and load filtered point data with relevant attributes from the .h5 granules of each data product.

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Sustainable Development - Environmental Satellites - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

earthaccess

Search, download or stream NASA Earth science data with just a few lines of code.

access climate-data cloud-computing cmr data gis nasa nasa-api nasa-data open-science openscience pangeo remote-sensing

Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.9

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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 10.5

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 Observation and Management - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.8

getSpatialData

Making it easy to query, preview, download and preprocess multiple kinds of satellite datasets via R.

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Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.6

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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 14.1

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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.9

phenocamr

Facilitates the retrieval and post-processing of PhenoCam time series.

phenocam phenocam-data phenology-modelling remote-sensing

Biosphere - Terrestrial Animals - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 10.7

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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 12.1

Awesome Spectral Indices

A ready-to-use curated list of Spectral Indices for Remote Sensing applications.

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Sustainable Development - Curated Lists - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 8.3

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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 15.0

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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 10.2

SITS

Enables users to apply machine learning techniques for classifying image time series obtained from earth observation data cubes.

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Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 15.8

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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 3.3

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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity

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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 9.2

Py6S

A Python interface to the 6S Radiative Transfer Model.

atmosphere python radiative-transfer remote-sensing satellite science

Atmosphere - Radiative Transfer - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 15.1

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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.2

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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 10.9

PV4GER

Aims at democratizing and accelerating the access to photovoltaic systems data in Germany and beyond.

ai climate-change computer-vision deep-learning deeplabv3 deepsolar inception-v3 network-planning neurips-2020 pv-systems remote-sensing renewable-energy satellite-imagery solar solar-panels

Renewable Energy - Photovoltaics and Solar Energy - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.3

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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 4.4

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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.8

wildfire forecasting

The project intends to reproduce the Fire Forecasting capabilities of GEFF using Deep Learning and develop further improvements in accuracy, geography and time scale through inclusion of additional variables or optimization of model architecture and hyperparameters.

deep-learning earth-observation gis remote-sensing wildfire-forecasting

Biosphere - Wildfire - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.3

nasa-wildfires

Download wildfire hotspots detected by NASA satellites and the Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS).

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Biosphere - Wildfire - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 9.6

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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 3.0

cultionet

A library for semantic segmentation of cultivated land using a neural network.

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Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.1

DeepBedMap

Using a deep neural network to better resolve the bed topography of Antarctica.

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Cryosphere - Glacier and Ice Sheets - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.4

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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 14.9

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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.0

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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 14.7

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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 13.8

MODISTools

Interface to the MODIS Land Products Subsets Web Services.

api r-package remote-sensing rstats satellite-data

Sustainable Development - Environmental Satellites - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 11.0

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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 12.9

Digital Earth Australia Coastlines

Extracting tidally-constrained annual shorelines and robust rates of coastal change from freely available Earth observation data at continental scale.

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Hydrosphere - Coastal and Reefs - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.3

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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.3

Digital Forestry Toolbox

A collection of digital forestry tools for Matlab/Octave.

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Biosphere - Forest Observation and Management - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 3.8

ForesToolboxRS

Remote Sensing Tools for Forest Monitoring.

change-detection deforestation machine-learning remote-sensing

Biosphere - Forest Observation and Management - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 4.7

RUBEM

A distributed hydrological model to calculate monthly flows with changes in land use over time.

catchment grid hydrological-model hydrology pcraster remote-sensing rubem simulation-model water

Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 4.4

Trends.Earth

A QGIS plugin that supports monitoring of land change, including changes in productivity, land cover, and soil organic carbon.

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Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 8.6

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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.3

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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 20.7

EODAG

Gives you an easy way to access products from more than 10 earth observation providers, with more than 50 different product types (Sentinel 1, Sentinel 2, Sentinel 3, Landsat, etc.) that can be searched and downloaded.

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Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.9

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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 13.7

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 Access and Visualization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 12.0

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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.0

WhiteboxTools

WhiteboxTools is an advanced geospatial data analysis platform.

geomorphology geomorphometry geoprocessing geospatial gis hydrology remote-sensing

Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 10.5

SNAP

The common software platform for the three Sentinel Toolboxes which are developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) for the scientific exploitation of the Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-3 missions.

data-processing data-visualization earth-observation eo linux macos raster-data remote-sensing windows

Sustainable Development - Environmental Satellites - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 9.8

awesome-gee-community-datasets

Community Datasets & Data Commons in Google Earth Engine.

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Sustainable Development - Curated Lists - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 8.8

CoastSat

Enables users to obtain time-series of shoreline position at any coastline worldwide from 30+ years of publicly available satellite imagery.

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Hydrosphere - Coastal and Reefs - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 16.7

EOReader

A remote-sensing opensource python library reading optical and SAR constellations, loading and stacking bands, clouds, DEM and spectral indices in a sensor-agnostic way.

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Sustainable Development - Environmental Satellites - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 15.0

earthlib

Contains several thousand unique spectral endmembers representing green vegetation, soil, non-photosynthetic vegetation, urban materials, and burned materials.

conservation earth-engine ecology remote-sensing spectral-unmixing

Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 4.1

phenofit

A state-of-the-art remote sensing vegetation phenology extraction package.

phenology remote-sensing

Biosphere - Plants and Vegetation - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 10.8

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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 8.7