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.

phenology remote-sensing

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

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