Awesome Agriculture – Massive Collection of Resources

A curated list of awesome open source technology for agriculture, farming, and gardening.

Agriculture is the science and art of cultivating plants and livestock for food and materials.

Contents

• Calculators
• Climate, Environment and Weather
• Crop Modeling, Phenotyping, and Pathology
• Datasets, Machine Learning and AI
• Data Standardization, Interoperability and APIs
• Farm Management Systems and Record Keeping
• Geospatial and GIS
• IoT, Hardware, Automation and Robotics
• Knowledgebases and Learning Resources
• Remote Sensing and Imagery

Calculators

• farm-calculators – WordPress plugin for calculating various farming and crop related information.

Climate, Environment and Weather

• agroclimatology – Ruby client for interacting with the NASA (POWER) Agroclimatology Web Resource.
• bomrang – Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology Data from R.
• evapotranspiration – Ruby library for calculating reference crop evapotranspiration (ETo).
• frostline – A dataset, API, and python parser for USDA plant hardiness zones.
• GSODR – Global summary daily weather data in R.
• iem – Code that makes the Iowa Environmental Mesonet run.
• PyETo – Python package for calculating reference/potential evapotranspiration (ETo).
• pyTSEB – A python two source energy balance model for estimation of evapotranspiration with remote sensing data.
• soilDB – R library for simplified access to NCSS soil databases.

Crop Modeling, Phenotyping, and Pathology

• Open Plant Pathology – A community that values open data and computational tools for advancing epidemiology and pathogen population biology and ecology.

Datasets, Machine Learning and AI

• agridat – R package providing an extensive collection of datasets from agricultural experiments.
• Crop Yield Prediction – Deep gaussian process for crop yield prediction based on remote sensing data.
• CWFID – Dataset comprising field images, vegetation segmentation masks and crop/weed plant type annotations.
• Deep Learning for Biologists with Keras – Tutorials for deep learning based analysis (mainly) on biological relavent themes.
• PlantCV – Plant phenotyping software using computer vision.
• TERRA REF -> 1PB public domain high resolution sensor data from sorghum breeding trials (data publication with large files available on globus.org at ncsa#terra-public)

Data Standardization, Interoperability and APIs

• AgGateway’s ADAPT Toolkit – Open Source project providing tools to simplify communication between growers, their machines, and their partners.
• agworld_api_client – Example Agworld API Ruby client library that is compliant with specification defined by jsonapi.org.
• agx-ruby – Ruby client for Proagrica’s agX platform APIs.
• API-Code-Samples – Contains aWhere’s API platform code samples.
• ClearAg-API-Examples – A collection of code examples using the ClearAg APIs.
• Open Ag Data Alliance – OADA is an open project designed to bring interoperability, security, and privacy to agricultural data.
• MyJohnDeereAPI-OAuth-CS-Client – C Sharp MyJohnDeere API client implementation.
• MyJohnDeereAPI-OAuth-Java-Client – Java MyJohnDeere API client implementation.
• MyJohnDeereAPI-OAuth-NodeJS-Client – Node.js MyJohnDeere API client implementation.
• MyJohnDeereAPI-OAuth-PHP-Client – PHP MyJohnDeere API client implementation.
• MyJohnDeereAPI-OAuth-Python-Client – Python MyJohnDeere API client implementation.
• MyJohnDeereAPI-OAuth-Python3-Client – Python3 MyJohnDeere API client implementation.
• MyJohnDeereAPI-OAuth-Ruby-Client – Ruby MyJohnDeere API client implementation.
• SampleData – Sample datacards, shapefiles, and other files you can use for testing.
• SencropAPI-JavaScript-Client – Sencrop API Javascript client implementation. Read and manage Sencrop weather stations.

Farm Management Systems and Record Keeping

• AgroSense – Free and open source farm management suite built with Java.
• farmOS – Web-based farm record keeping application built with Drupal and PHP.
• Ekylibre – Farm management information system for farmers and small enterprises built with Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL/PostGIS.
• Soil Mate – Helper app designed to assist the collection of soil data.
• Tania – Free and open source farming management system for everyone built with Go and Vue.js.

Geospatial and GIS

GIS Resources

• Awesome GIS – Awesome GIS is a list collecting abundant GIS related sources.

GIS Platforms

• QGIS – QGIS is a free, open source, cross platform (lin/win/mac) geographical information system.

Shapefiles

• pyshp – Reads and writes ESRI Shapefiles in pure Python.
• rgeo-shapefile – RGeo Shapefile is an optional module for RGeo for reading geospatial data from ESRI shapefiles in Ruby.

IoT, Hardware, Automation and Robotics

• AgOpenGPS – Ag precision mapping and section control software.
• DRO-Matic – Fully Automated Hydroponic OS for DIY DRO-Matic cabinets – Nutrient dosing, irrigation, topoffs, timers, EC & pH drift fixing.
• FarmBot – Open source precision agriculture CNC farming project.
• Farm Hack – Worldwide community of farmers that build and modify our own tools.
• Open Agriculture Foundation – Open Source ecosystem of technologies that enable and promote transparency, networked experimentation, education, and hyper-local production.
• OpenMinder – Open Source Rootzone Monitoring, API and open source hat for the RaspberryPi.
• ROS Agriculture – Open Source community focusing on using Robot Operating System to empower farmers with robotics tools.

Knowledgebases and Learning Resources

• Harvest Helper – Provides growing, harvesting and recipe information for the 45 plants in the database as well as a JSON API.
• OpenFarm – A free and open database for farming and gardening knowledge built with Ruby on Rails.

Remote Sensing and Imagery

• Awesome Sentinel – A curated list of awesome tools, tutorials and APIs related to data from the Copernicus Sentinel Satellites.
• Raster Vision – Deep learning for aerial/satellite imagery.
• Sen2Agri – Software system processing high resolution satellite images for agricultural purposes.
• Awesome Vegetation Index – List of reference, applications of common Vegetation Indices for Multi-spectral, hyper-spectral and UAV images.