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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StormR
An R package allowing to easily extract storm track data for given locations or areas of interests, to generate wind speed and direction fields, and to compute summary statistics characterising the behaviour of winds generated by tropical storms and cyclones.
cyclones-behaviour r tropical-storms
Climate Change - Natural Hazard and Storm - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.6
ECTO
Modular environmental exposures ontology.
environment exposure health monarchinitiative obo obofoundry ontology owl
Sustainable Development - Taxonomy and Ontology - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.8
SESMG
An energy system model generator with the focus on the optimization of urban energy systems.
Energy Systems - Energy Distribution and Grids - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.9
specify7
A biological collections data management platform.
Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.7
OpenDER
Aims to accurately represent steady-state and dynamic behaviors of inverter-based distributed energy resources.
Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.7
gfwr
R package for accessing data from Global Fishing Watch APIs.
Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.7
pvOps
Contains a series of functions to facilitate fusion of text-based data with time series production data collected at photovoltaic sites.
Renewable Energy - Photovoltaics and Solar Energy - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.2
MPET
Run simulations of batteries with porous electrodes using porous electrode theory, which is a volume-averaged, multiscale approach to capture the coupled behavior of electrolyte and active material within electrodes.
Energy Storage - Battery - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.1
MEWS
A Python package designed to add extreme weather events to existing weather data or projections.
Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 9.5
pyNuMAD
An object-oriented, open-source software written in Python which facilitates the creation and analysis of three-dimensional models of wind turbine blades.
Renewable Energy - Wind Energy - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 3.2
PointER
A LiDAR-Derived Point Cloud Dataset of One Million English Buildings Linked to Energy Characteristics.
building-energy dataset deep-learning lidar point-cloud
Consumption - Buildings and Heating - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 3.8
Graph Weather
Data-driven approach for forecasting global weather using graph neural network.
forecasting-models graph-neural-networks pytorch weather
Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 11.2
MetNet
A neural network that forecasts precipitation up to 8 hours into the future at the high spatial resolution of 1 km² and at the temporal resolution of 2 minutes with a latency in the order of second.
Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 13.1
https://github.com/electricitymaps/electricitymaps-contrib
A real-time visualisation of the CO2 emissions of electricity consumption
climate-change data-visualization hacktoberfest sustainability
Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 14.0
EPANET-RTX Library
The real-time extension to the EPANET Hydraulic Toolkit.
Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.6
EPyT
A Common programming framework for research and development in the growing field of smart water networks.
epanet epanet-matlab-toolkit epanet-python-toolkit network python simulation water
Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.1
Full Lands INtegration Tool
A modular system to estimate greenhouse gas emissions and removals by the land sector.
cpp-climate-change-linux-foundation
Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.1
Transportation Fuels Reporting System
An online application for fuel suppliers to manage their compliance obligations under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction.
award carbon cre cred credi credit credits empr f fu fue fuel fuels low nrm tra tran trans transfer transfers
Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.5
nmecr
Builds upon the energy efficiency community's past efforts to model complex and nuanced building energy use profiles.
Consumption - Buildings and Heating - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.4
Profit and emission database
A free public database on large corporate emissions and profits.
Emissions - Carbon Intensity and Accounting - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 0.0
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: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.9
HOPP
Assesses optimal designs for the deployment of utility-scale hybrid energy plants, particularly considering wind, solar and storage.
Energy Systems - Energy Modeling and Optimization - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 12.0
OceanMesh2D
Precise distance-based two-dimensional automated mesh generation toolbox intended for coastal ocean/shallow water flow models.
coastal-modelling geophysics meshes multiscale-simulation open-source shallow-water-equations
Hydrosphere - Coastal and Reefs - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.0
oceanmesh
A Python package for the development of unstructured triangular meshes that are used in the simulation of coastal ocean circulation.
coastal-modelling mesh-generation python
Hydrosphere - Coastal and Reefs - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.0
Fossil Shipment Tracker
A data platform that provides decision-makers, journalists and campaigning organizations with information that helps identify fossil fuel shipments from Russia.
Emissions - Emission Observation and Modeling - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 4.2
medfate
Functions to simulate Mediterranean forest functioning and dynamics using cohort-based description of vegetation.
Biosphere - Forest Observation and Management - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 9.9
meteoland
Functions to estimate weather variables at any position of a landscape.
Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.6
ClearWater Modules
A collection of water quality and vegetation process simulation modules designed to couple with water transport models.
Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.1
WorldCereal
An efficient, agile and robust EO based system for timely global crop monitoring at field scale.
Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 3.2
OrcaHello
A real-time AI-assisted killer whale notification system.
artificial-intelligence audio-analysis audio-processing bioacoustics deep-learning inference machine-learning marine marine-biology neural-network orcas real-time realtime whales
Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.9
xscen
A climate change scenario-building analysis framework, built with Intake-esm catalogs and xarray-based packages such as xclim and xESMF.
Climate Change - Climate Data Processing and Analysis - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.0
SNAP
A lagrangian type atmospheric dispersion model specialized on modelling dispersion of radioactive debris.
Atmosphere - Atmospheric Dispersion and Transport - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.3
cf-xarray
An accessor for xarray objects that interprets CF attributes.
cf-conventions metadata xarray
Climate Change - Climate Data Standards - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 13.1
MOVES
A state-of-the-science emission modeling system that estimates emissions for mobile sources at the national, county, and project level for criteria air pollutants, greenhouse gases, and air toxics, available under EPA's Open Source Software policy.
Emissions - Emission Observation and Modeling - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.7
ISRaD
Improve the use of radiocarbon as a constraint for understanding the soil carbon cycle.
Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.5
LROSE
The Lidar Radar Open Software Environment for Atmospheric Science.
Atmosphere - Atmospheric Composition and Dynamics - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.5
Earthdata Search
A web application developed by NASA EOSDIS to enable data discovery, search, comparison, visualization, and access across EOSDIS' Earth Science data holdings.
data-discovery earthdata-search eosdis hacktoberfest
Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.6
Awesome Earth
"What can I do about the climate crisis?" Here are 326 things you can do.
awesome awesome-list carbon-emissions carbon-footprint carbon-reduction climate-action climate-change climate-crisis food-waste footprint-calculators renewable-energy
Sustainable Development - Curated Lists - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.5
Metview Python bindings
Python interface to Metview, a meteorological workstation and batch system for accessing, examining, manipulating and visualising meteorological data.
Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 14.7
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
GlobalFishingWatch
Track commercial fishing activity worldwide on the free, user-friendly, interactive Global Fishing Watch map.
Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.2
Karrot
Web application for organization of foodsaving groups worldwide.
community food grassroots organization social
Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.4
Climate Action Plans
A simple, open database of local government climate action plan documents and emissions data.
citizen-participation climate climate-change docker local-government mapit vagrant
Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.6
PRIMAP2
The next generation climate policy analysis suite.
Climate Change - Integrated Assessment and Climate Policy - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.2
Linux Foundation Energy Landscape
This landscape is intended as a map to explore the open source projects in the energy sector, and also shows the member companies of the LF Energy Foundation.
Sustainable Development - Knowledge Platforms - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.0
Planetary Computer Data Catalog
Combines a multi-petabyte catalog of global environmental data with intuitive APIs and a flexible scientific environment.
Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.5
Trefle
A botanical JSON REST API for plants species, allowing you to search and query over all the registered species, and build the next gardening apps and farming robots.
api-rest biodiversity database farming-robots gardening-apps hacktoberfest plants plants-species trefle trefle-api
Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.8
mizer
An R package to run dynamic multi-species size-spectrum models of fish communities.
ecosystem-model fish-population-dynamics fisheries fisheries-management marine-ecosystem population-dynamics r simulation size-structure species-interactions transport-equation
Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 12.9
openfoodnetwork
An online marketplace for local food. It enables a network of independent online food stores that connects farmers and food hubs with individuals and local businesses.
farmers food food-hubs hacktoberfest nonprofit rails ruby sustainable-consumption
Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 12.9
gwells
Groundwater Wells and Aquifers application for the Ministry of Environment in British Columbia.
bcgov-csnr django env groundwater-data vuejs
Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: -Infinity
Awesome Clean Tech
Clean technology is any process, product, or service that reduces negative environmental impacts through significant energy efficiency improvements, the sustainable use of resources, or environmental protection activities.
awesome awesome-list clean-tech climate-change climate-change-mitigation environment-friendly
Sustainable Development - Curated Lists - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 9.5
Model My Watershed
A watershed-modeling web app for citizens, conservation practitioners, municipal decision-makers, educators, and students.
civic-apps-team hydrology stormwater watersheds
Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 9.5
MeteoInfo
GIS and scientific computation environment for meteorological community.
gis java jython meteorology scientific scientific-computing
Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 11.6
Aqualink
A philanthropically funded system to help people manage their local marine ecosystems in the face of increasing Ocean temperatures.
climate-change environment nodejs react typescript
Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.1
OpenModelica
An open source Modelica-based modeling and simulation environment intended for industrial and academic usage.
Consumption - Production and Industry - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: -Infinity
Safecast
Building out a network of sensors to monitor particulate matter in sizes PM1.0, PM2.5, PM10.
Natural Resources - Air Quality - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.9
plantFEM
A plant simulator based on Finite Element Method, which targets crops in fields. This software provides multi-physical simulations of agriculture for canopies, plants, and organs for farmers, breeders, and agronomists.
agriculture fem finite-element-methods
Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.4
Satip
A library for satellite image processing providing all of the functionality necessary for retrieving, and storing EUMETSAT data.
eumetsat gis nowcasting python satellite-imagery
Sustainable Development - Environmental Satellites - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.8
powerplant
Provides intelligent planting suggestions which maximize positive crop interaction for the mutual benefit of all your crops.
crop garden javascript permaculture pouchdb powerplant react redux
Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.5
osiris
A R package to process climate impacts on agricultural yields for the Global Change Analysis Model.
Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 1.8
SEPAL
Empowering people around the world to gain a better understanding of land cover dynamics in forest management by facilitating the efficient access and use of Earth observation data.
Biosphere - Forest Observation and Management - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.3
Is-Vegan
Helps you to find out which food ingredients are vegan / non-vegan.
Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 13.4
cosore
Data, metadata, and software tools for the COSORE database of continuous soil respiration measurements.
carbon-cycle earth-sciences science soil-respiration
Natural Resources - Soil and Land - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.3
mrremind
MadRat REMIND Input Data Package.
Climate Change - Integrated Assessment and Climate Policy - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.0
Geoclimate
Geospatial processing toolbox for environmental and climate studies.
climate-change environment gis
Climate Change - Climate Data Processing and Analysis - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.9
comfort_tool
A web interface for comfort model calculations and visualizations according to ASHRAE Standard-55, EN Standard 16798 and ISO Standard 7730.
air-temperature comfort pmv pmv-prediction thermal-comfort
Consumption - Buildings and Heating - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.2
GWHAT
A free, open source, and cross-platform interactive computer program whose main focus is the interpretation of observation well hydrographs.
groundwater-recharge hydrographs soil-water-balance well-hydrograph
Natural Resources - Water Supply - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 4.6
Climate Model Output Rewriter
Produce CF-compliant netCDF files that fulfill the requirements of many of the climate community's standard model experiments.
Climate Change - Climate Data Standards - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.6
DALES
Dutch Atmospheric Large-Eddy Simulation model.
Climate Change - Earth and Climate Modeling - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.1
NCL
The NCAR Command Language is a scripting language for the analysis and visualization of climate and weather data.
Climate Change - Climate Data Processing and Analysis - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 9.6
Wildfire Predictive Services
Wildfire Predictive Services to support decision making in prevention, preparedness, response and recovery.
bcws cffdrs fastapi flnr hacktoberfest javascript postgis postgres postgresql python react typescript weather wildfire
Biosphere - Wildfire - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.9
WRF-Hydro
A community modeling system and framework for hydrologic modeling and model coupling.
earth-science fortran hydrologic-modeling hydrology modeling wrf-hydro
Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.0
TaxonWorks
An integrated web-based workbench for taxonomists and biodiversity scientists.
biodiversity biodiversity-informatics collections describe evolution life nomenclature ruby species taxonomy
Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.2
AI for Earth Data Sets
Notebooks and documentation for AI-for-Earth-managed datasets on Azure.
Sustainable Development - Data Catalogs and Interfaces - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.2
RHESSys
The Regional Hydro-Ecologic Simulation System.
Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.8
HydroShare
A collaborative website for better access to data and models in the hydrologic sciences.
collaboration django django-rest-framework docker hydro hydrologic-database hydrologic-modeling hydrologic-networks hydrologic-sciences hydrology hydrology-stormwater-analysis hydroshare irods javascript nginx postgresql python solr
Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.1
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
SOILWAT2
An ecosystem water balance simulation model.
Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: -Infinity
river-dl
Deep learning model for predicting environmental variables on river systems.
Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.4
Gieß den Kiez
Enable coordinated citizen participation in the irrigation of urban trees.
berlin citylab-berlin community map open-data rain trees watering
Biosphere - Forest Observation and Management - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.9
ecodata
A data package for reporting on Northeast Continental Shelf ecosystem status and trends.
Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.0
MAAP
Discover and use biomass relevant data, integrating the data for comparison, analysis, evaluation, and generation.
Biosphere - Biomass - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.9
Darwin Core
Standard for sharing of information about biological diversity.
biodiversity-informatics biodiversity-standards darwin-core standard tdwg
Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.2
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: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 18.1
Badlands
Basin and Landscape Dynamics is a long-term surface evolution model built to simulate landscape development, sediment transport and sedimentary basins formation from upstream regions down to marine environments.
basin-evolution climate geomorphology geosciences landscape-dynamics marine sedimentology stratigraphy
Hydrosphere - Freshwater and Hydrology - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.9
Pymagicc
A Python wrapper around the reduced complexity climate model.
climate-model magicc-model python-wrapper
Climate Change - Earth and Climate Modeling - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 12.3
mobr
Tools for analyzing changes in biodiversity across scales.
biodiversity conservation ecology rarefaction species statistics
Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.7
SIS2
Calculates the concentration, thickness, temperature, brine content and snow cover of an arbitrary number of ice thickness categories (including open water) as well as the motion of the complete pack.
Cryosphere - Glacier and Ice Sheets - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.5
VIAME
Video and Image Analytics for Marine Environments.
annotation-framework artificial-intelligence computer-vision conservation deep-learning ecology image-annotation image-processing machine-learning marine-biology object-detection oceanography open-source video-analysis video-analytics video-annotation video-search
Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 9.6
Glacier Mapping From Satellite Imagery
Use computer vision to automatically segment debris and ice glaciers from satellite images.
Cryosphere - Glacier and Ice Sheets - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.3
FATES
A cohort model of vegetation competition and co-existence, allowing a representation of the biosphere which accounts for the division of the land surface into successional stages.
Biosphere - Forest Observation and Management - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 9.8
Energy-Languages
The complete set of tools for energy consumption analysis of programming languages, using Computer Language Benchmark Game.
clbg energy languages programming
Consumption - Computation and Communication - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.6
