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Environmental Data

Explore 37 projects in the Environmental Data category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

37 projects

Flash Flood Guidance System with Global Coverage (FFGS)

To address the issues associated with flash floods, especially the lack of capacity to develop effective flash flood warnings, the Flash Flood Guidance System (FFGS) was designed and developed for interactive use by meteorological and hydrological forecasters throughout the world.

Washington, DC
floods

Decibel Shield

Interactive map ranking the noise of every US city over 100,000 people, built from federal US DOT/BTS National Transportation Noise Map data (CC BY 4.0).

Africa Data Hub Climate Observer

The Africa Data Hub Climate Observer is designed to help journalists and academics reporting and researching climate change in Africa.

South Africa
2023
Climate action

FireBench

FireBench is the largest high-fidelity wildfire simulation dataset, enabling the generation of ensembles of fire evolution scenarios and combining observational environmental data with high-fidelity simulations.

Mountain View, CA, USA
fires
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EyeClimate

MethaneMapper is an open-source, AI-powered hyperspectral imaging tool to detect methane emissions and trace them to their sources.

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

Data Zetu

This project is using geospatial technology to solve the climate mobility data gap and inform required food security and planning interventions.

Tanzania
Climate action, migration

Weave

Get energy data with a few lines of code

Affordable and clean energy

Radiant Earth

Increasing shared understanding of our world through community-led initiatives that make data easier to access and use.

Washington, DC

Data Friendly Space (DFS)

We envision a future where technology and data power positive social change

Williamsburg, VA
2015
Climate action, humanitarian