Open Sustainable Technology
A curated list of open technology projects to sustain a stable climate, energy supply, biodiversity and natural resources.
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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 Observation and Management - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 3.3
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 and Species Distribution - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 12.0
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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.1
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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.9
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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 10.4
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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 10.8
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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 12.1
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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 4.7
LAGOSNE
Interface to the LAke multi-scaled GeOSpatial & temporal database.
cran ecology geoscience limnology rstats water-quality
Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 10.5
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 - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 8.8
nhdR
An R interface to the US National Hydrography Dataset.
cran geospatial national-hydrography-dataset nhd rstats water-quality water-resources
Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 11.3
giscoR
An R API package that helps to retrieve data from Eurostat Geographic Information System of the Commission.
api-wrapper cran eurostat eurostat-data ggplot2 gis gisco r r-package ropengov rstats spatial thematic-maps
Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 14.5
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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 8.7
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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 12.5
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 and Species Distribution - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.3
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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 15.3
ghg emissions indicator
R scripts for a greenhouse gases emissions indicator published on Environmental Reporting British Columbia.
Emissions - Emission Observation and Modeling - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 4.2
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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.9
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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.5
BIRDS
This set of tools has been developed for systematizing biodiversity data review in order to evaluate whether a set of species observation are fit-for-use and help take decisions upon its use on further analysis.
biodiversity-data biodiversity-informatics data-gaps gbif reported-species rstats sampling-effort species-observed
Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 4.2
HASP
Hydrologic AnalySis Package.
groundwater groundwater-level r r-package rstats
Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.0
bcgroundwater
An R package to facilitate analysis and visualization of groundwater data from the British Columbia groundwater observation well network.
Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.2
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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.3
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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.8
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 and Species Distribution - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.6
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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 18.1
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
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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 13.5
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
Long-term Trends in Groundwater Levels in B.C.
R scripts for an indicator on long-term trends in groundwater levels in British Columbia published on Environmental Reporting British Columbia.
Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.0
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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.1
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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 9.7
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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 17.1
rfisheries
Interacting with fisheries databases at openfisheries.org.
fisheries open-data openfisheries r r-package rstats
Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 16.7
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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 12.1
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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 5.2
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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 4.4
EMODnetWFS
Allow interrogation of and access to EMODnet(European Marine Observation and Data Network) geographic vector data in R though the EMODnet Web Feature Services.
biology dataproducts emodnet marine-data rstats wfs
Hydrosphere - Ocean and Hydrology Data Access - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 4.6
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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 16.1
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 and Species Distribution - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 9.5
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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 21.0
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 - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.4
chirps
A quasi-global high-resolution rainfall data set, which incorporates satellite imagery and in-situ station data to create gridded rainfall time series for trend analysis and seasonal drought monitoring.
chirps climatology precipitation-data rstats
Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 4.8
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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 4.4
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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.0
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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 6.3
climateR
An R package for getting point and gridded climate data by AOI.
aoi climate dataset geospatial gridded-climate-data rstats weather
Climate Change - Climate Data Access and Visualization - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 7.3
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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 18.4
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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 14.4
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 and Species Distribution - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 14.5
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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: 16.8
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: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity
epicrop
Simulation modelling of crop diseases using a Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Removed (SEIR) model in R.
agricultural-modeling agricultural-modelling agricultural-research botanical-epidemiology crop-protection disease epirice-model model modeling modelling r rice rice-diseases rstats seir seir-model
Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 11 May 2024 - Ranking: -Infinity