Open Source Mac Ecosystem Sciences Software

Niche Analyst (NicheA) was developed based on the BAM framework which allows users to create virtual spaces and virtual species, and to analyze ecological niches in both multivariate environmental and geographic spaces, linking views of the niche in the two spaces. The unique functionality in NicheA, not available in other software programs, is estimating Grinnellian niches of species based on environmental variables and occurrence records, but with a clear focus on fundamental ecological niches. NicheA can display ecological niches; calculate their shape, density, location, and other attributes; and quantify similarity among multiple niches.

The macOS version of PHREEQC, a program developed by the U.S. Geological Survey for speciation, batch-reaction, one-dimensional transport, and inverse geochemical calculations

SeaBreeze is a device driver library that provides an interface to select Ocean Optics spectrometers. It is written in C/C++ and builds and runs on Windows (XP/7/8), MacOSX, and Linux (x86/x64/ARM).

Biosphere3D targets interactive landscape rendering based on a virtual globe. It supports DEM, satellite and aerial images, 3D models (Collada), 3D plant models, and Shapefiles. Biosphere3D was initially developed by the landscape visualization group of the Zuse Institute Berlin by Malte Clasen and is now developed further by Lenné3D GmbH. For more information about the used concepts have a look at the thesis of Malte Clasen: Towards Interactive Landscape Visualization Doctoral Thesis published 2011 via Technische Universität Berlin https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-3005

MCC-LIDAR is a C++ application for processing LiDAR data in forested environments. It classifies data points as ground or non-ground using the Multiscale Curvature Classification algorithm.

TRiDaS is a universal data exchange standard for the dendrochronology community. This project contains the data standard itself as well as libraries and tools useful for reading, writing and converting dendro data files.

A collection of Dashboard Widgets generally focused on displaying information provided by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Examples include river levels information of interest to whitewater kayakers amongst others.

CRAFTY is a large-scale ABM of land use change. It has been designed to allow efficient but powerful simulation of a wide range of land uses and the goods and services they produce. It is fully open-source and can be used without the need for any programming.

Project moved to GitHub: github.com/rejjir/CSESD-archiving

Electronics schematics, PCB images, firmware and documentation to create and deploy a network of ecology related sensors.

Fuzzy Ecospace Modelling (FEM) is an R-based program for quantifying and comparing functional disparity, using a fuzzy set theory-based machine learning approach. FEM clusters n-dimensional matrices of functional traits (ecospace matrices – here called the Training Matrix) into functional groups and converts them into fuzzy functional groups using fuzzy discriminant analysis (Lin and Chen 2004 – see main text for more information). Following this, FEM classifies the functional entities from a second matrix (the Test Matrix) into the groups made using the Training Matrix, generating fuzzy membership values for each unit in the Test Matrix. These values are real numbers from 0 to 1, representing increasing degrees of “truth” regarding an organism’s membership in the fuzzy set (see main text). A value of 0 represents non-membership in the fuzzy set, and a value of 1 represents total membership in the fuzzy set. Values in between represent degrees of niche overlap.

Run-time libraries to support the Kitchen Sink, an all-purpose chemical process control board, based on the Atmel AVR ATmega1280 chip, using the Arduino core libraries.

The OBO-Annotator is a semantic NLP tool that is designed to give its end-users a great deal of flexibility to combine any number of OBO ontologies from the OBO foundry regardless of their format and use them to annotate text-bases.

Obs-dm aims to provide a robust and reliable way to collect, analyze, and share observational data. It is being designed for extendability into other areas such as fisheries and habitat science.

OpenAMIS (Open AgroMeteorological Information System) is customable free and open software for websites providing agrometeorological information to farmers and agroindustry.

PhaenUhr is an easy to use graphical Java application to visualize the impact of climate change on seasonal biological phenomena as two nested phenological clocks. You can configure the clocks in many ways and export them to standard graphic formats.

Physical modelling of water transport in plants

Software made available by the Residual Analysis blog, primarily having to do with anthropogenic global warming, e.g. GHCN Processor.

*.xml files are uploaded to SAGA GIS toolchains 'Files' from where they can be downloaded: https://sourceforge.net/projects/saga-gis-rhotoolchains/files/ SAGA-GIS-toolchain_Burned_area.xml ___is presented in GitHub: https://github.com/RhoSpatial/Saga-gis-toolchain-for-burned-area-mapping- VIIRS_snow_tool_FINAL7.xml ___is a toolchain for snow cover retrival from VIIRS instrument imagery (NASA), input is study area cloud free VNP09GA product and DEM in GQ(nom 250m) resolution, it was developed to make high accurate snow cover analytics on Atlas mountains(Morocco). It was tested in 2017/18 snow season(output grids are available: mih.zemva@gmail.com). It is fairly complicated but not as much as toolchain for MODIS(not uploaded) with MOD09.. products input . * in line 139 polygon *.shp must be linked from drive; it's an additional retrieval of index values to monitor waterbodies and does not relate to snow cover analytics

A Silverlight framework that makes it easy to develop games and applications simulating creatures that interacts with eachother.

UIBM (= Universal Individual-Based Model) is an agent-based simulation/3d-dvisualization of the dynamics within multispecies plant communities of Northwest Europe, parameterized from databases using universal scaling laws.

A Java system to decode the WMO BUFR format for weather data and translate it to XML.

Simulates data from a gaussian/beta/piecewise-linear species response function on an environmental gradient, with different sampling (error) distributions. See "Cline (biology)" on wikipedia.org.

GeoSciPy is a set of C and Python functions that provide an API for all aspects of Geoscience and Remote Sensing Applications. Functions include reading/writing of many data formats, images, vectors, ..., and processing of images, vectors, ... including map projections, ... The library is written C, using HDF5 as the file format for storage of all remotely-sensed data and ancillary data, as well as processed data. The C functions assume a particular format for the HDF5 file contents, and provide functions for reading and writing data to such files. There is also a Python API that provides a procedural as well as an object-oriented interface to these functions. A Python GUI for interacting with such datasets is also part of the project. While there are other open-source GIS, and image-processing packages available, this one is designed to be comprehensive, work on 3 major platforms, user-extensible, fast, and able to handle huge datasets. Click the Blog tab for more info.

mesoFON is an individual-based mangrove forest model. It is a Java implementation of the KiWi model done with RePast Simphony. It contains several new features: (1) You can add up to 10 species via the GUI. However, in principle, the number of species to be included programmatically is unlimited. (2) You can use a variety of growth functions via typing them in as a string on the GUI. (3) The model is transparent, sinc it comes with the Eclipse workbench of RePast.