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.

api-wrapper mapping r

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.

pytorch

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.

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Consumption - Mobility and Transportation - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.5

SAM

An open-source software designed to help engineers create analytical models of energy-efficient buildings.

core sam

Consumption - Buildings and Heating - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.0

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

FrEDI

Estimates economic damages and impacts from climate change and sea level rise through the 21st century.

oar

Climate Change - Natural Hazard and Storm - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.2

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.

oar

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

OpenFarm

A free and open database and web application for farming and gardening knowledge.

farming gardening open-source plants rails

Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 11.5

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.

landscape

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.

aiforearth

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

MAgPIE

Model of Agricultural Production and its Impact on the Environment.

gams land magpie pik

Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.1

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

Cate

A software for ingesting, operating on and visualizing all ESA Climate Change Initiative data.

cci climate conda esa python

Climate Change - Climate Data Visualization and Access - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: -Infinity

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

WRF-ARW

The official repository for the Weather Research and Forecasting model.

climate forecast fortran model nwp simulation weather wrf

Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 12.1

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.

food ingredients npm 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.

cmip6 cmor3 esgf prepare

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

rnoaa

An R interface to many National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data sources.

climate noaa noaa-data r r-package rstats

Climate Change - Climate Data Visualization and Access - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 9.7

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.

aiforearth

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.

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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.

data-package soe

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

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

rfishbase

An R interface to the fishbase.org database.

fish fishbase r r-package rstats taxonomy

Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 19.0

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