A curated list of open-source tools, APIs, datasets, and resources at the intersection of climate science, agriculture, and irrigation engineering.
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- Climate Data
- Soil Data
- Remote Sensing
- Evapotranspiration & Irrigation
- Vegetation Indices
- Crop Modeling
- Machine Learning for Agriculture
- Mexico Specific
- Communities & Conferences
- Learning
- NASA POWER — Solar radiation, meteorological and climate data API for renewable energy and agroclimatology.
- Copernicus Climate Data Store (ERA5) — Access to ERA5 reanalysis and hundreds of climate datasets from the Copernicus programme.
- OpenWeather API — Current, forecast, and historical weather data for any location.
- World Bank Climate Knowledge Portal — Climate data, vulnerability assessments, and adaptation tools by country.
- CHIRPS Rainfall Data — High-resolution quasi-global rainfall estimates (1981–present) from UCSB Climate Hazards Center.
- SoilGrids (ISRIC) — Global gridded soil information at 250m resolution (properties, classes, uncertainty).
- FAO Soils Portal — Global soil information hub with maps, databases, and the Harmonized World Soil Database.
- OpenLandMap — Open portal to global environmental data including soil, climate, vegetation, and terrain layers.
- Google Earth Engine — Planetary-scale geospatial analysis platform with a multi-petabyte data catalog.
- Sentinel Hub — Cloud API for satellite imagery processing. Includes EO Browser.
- Copernicus Data Space — Free Sentinel satellite data access (successor to the old Copernicus Open Access Hub).
- MODIS Data (NASA) — Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer data portal.
- Landsat (USGS) — Landsat satellite imagery. Data available via EarthExplorer.
- QGIS — Free, open-source cross-platform geographic information system.
- Rasterio — Python library for reading and writing geospatial raster datasets.
- GeoPandas — Python library extending pandas for spatial operations on geometric types.
- OpenET — Satellite-based evapotranspiration data platform using an ensemble of six ET models.
- PyETo — Python package for calculating reference/potential evapotranspiration (FAO-56, Hargreaves, Thornthwaite).
- RefET — ASCE Standardized Reference Evapotranspiration Functions in Python.
- FAO ETo Calculator — Free software for computing reference ET with the FAO Penman-Monteith equation.
- FAO AQUASTAT — Global information system on water resources, water use, and agricultural water management.
- AquaCrop (FAO) — Crop water productivity model simulating yield response to water.
- Awesome GEE Community Catalog — Community-sourced geospatial datasets curated for Google Earth Engine. GitHub.
- Ndvi2Gif — Python library for creating multi-seasonal remote sensing index composites via GEE.
- kNDVI — Kernel NDVI implementation in Python, JavaScript (GEE), R, Julia, and MATLAB.
- sentinelsat — Python API and CLI to search and download Copernicus Sentinel satellite images.
- NDVI on GitHub — Collection of NDVI-related repositories.
- DSSAT — Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer; dynamic crop growth simulation for 45+ crops.
- APSIM — Agricultural Production Systems Simulator with 80+ modules for plant, animal, soil, and climate interactions.
- CropSyst — Multi-year, multi-crop daily time step growth simulation model (Washington State University).
- AgML — Centralized framework for agricultural ML with public datasets, benchmarks, and pretrained models.
- PlantVillage Dataset — 54,306 images of healthy and diseased plant leaves. Also on Kaggle.
- Radiant Earth — Open geospatial ML data and standards organization.
- TensorFlow PlantVillage — PlantVillage dataset accessible via TensorFlow Datasets.
- CONAGUA / SMN — Servicio Meteorologico Nacional: datos climatologicos, pronosticos y monitor de sequia.
- SIAP — Servicio de Informacion Agroalimentaria y Pesquera; estadisticas oficiales agropecuarias de Mexico.
- INIFAP — Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agricolas y Pecuarias.
- CONABIO — Comision Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad. Portal: biodiversidad.gob.mx.
- INEGI — Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Geografia; incluye datos de suelo.
- Datos Abiertos Mexico — Plataforma Nacional de Datos Abiertos del Gobierno de Mexico.
- FOSS4G — Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial international conference series (OSGeo).
- NASA Harvest — NASA's global consortium on food security and agriculture using Earth observations.
- Open Agriculture Foundation — 51 repositories of open-source agricultural hardware and software.
- FAO eLearning Academy — 700+ free multilingual courses on agriculture, food security, and climate-smart agriculture.
- Google Earth Engine Tutorials — Official tutorials, guides, and trainings for GEE.
- Awesome GEE — Curated list of GEE resources, tutorials, and tools.
- Spatial Thoughts: End-to-End GEE — Comprehensive free course on Google Earth Engine.
- Coursera: Agriculture, Economics and Nature — Agricultural and environmental economics (University of Western Australia).
- Coursera: Climate Change Mitigation — Energy, transport, agriculture and land use in climate mitigation.
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