[ { "id": "about/audience", "label": "Who this is for, and what it is trying to do", "description": "The intended audience and the goals behind the guide, stated so that anyone can check the guide against them.", "tags": [], "kinds": [], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "proposed", "updated": "2026-10-02", "url": "/about/audience/" }, { "id": "about", "label": "About", "description": "Who this is for and why it exists.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "section" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": "list", "depiction": null, "status": "public", "updated": "", "url": "/about/" }, { "id": "articles/advances-in-geocomputation-and-geoai-for-mapping", "label": "Advances in geocomputation and geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) for mapping", "description": "2023 editorial review by Yongze Song and colleagues of how geocomputation and GeoAI are used in mapping, with a taxonomy of mapping applications and of the data types that feed them.", "tags": [ "geoai", "geocomputation", "mapping", "remote sensing", "review" ], "kinds": [ "article" ], "domains": [ "places" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/articles/advances-in-geocomputation-and-geoai-for-mapping/" }, { "id": "articles/ecological-frontier", "label": "The ecological frontier", "description": "", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "article" ], "domains": [], "pinned": true, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-15", "url": "/articles/ecological-frontier/" }, { "id": "articles", "label": "Articles", "description": "Pieces written here and elsewhere.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "section" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": "list", "depiction": null, "status": "public", "updated": "", "url": "/articles/" }, { "id": "articles/limits-of-reason", "label": "The limits of reason: ecological frontiers", "description": "", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "article" ], "domains": [], "pinned": true, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-15", "url": "/articles/limits-of-reason/" }, { "id": "articles/so-you-want-to-make-a-digital-twin", "label": "So you want to make a digital twin?", "description": "", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "guide" ], "domains": [], "pinned": true, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-15", "url": "/articles/so-you-want-to-make-a-digital-twin/" }, { "id": "articles/visual-grammar", "label": "A visual grammar for use cases", "description": "One symbol and one colour per domain, and whole systems drawn as relationships among them.", "tags": [ "visual-grammar" ], "kinds": [ "article" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "proposed", "updated": "", "url": "/articles/visual-grammar/" }, { "id": "articles/what-is-a-digital-twin", "label": "What is a digital twin?", "description": "", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "article" ], "domains": [], "pinned": true, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-15", "url": "/articles/what-is-a-digital-twin/" }, { "id": "articles/whole-systems-models", "label": "Are there whole systems models yet?", "description": "", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "article" ], "domains": [], "pinned": true, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-15", "url": "/articles/whole-systems-models/" }, { "id": "books/a-vast-machine", "label": "A Vast Machine", "description": "Paul Edwards's 2010 history of how climate knowledge is made from models and data together, from early weather observation to global climate simulation.", "tags": [ "climate", "models", "data", "history", "infrastructure" ], "kinds": [ "book" ], "domains": [ "climate" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": "/books/a-vast-machine/cover.jpg", "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/books/a-vast-machine/" }, { "id": "books/agent-based-modelling-and-geographical-information-systems", "label": "Agent-Based Modelling and Geographical Information Systems", "description": "A practical primer from Crooks, Malleson, Manley and Heppenstall, 2019, on building agent-based models of people in places and linking them to GIS, with worked examples in NetLogo.", "tags": [ "agent-based", "gis", "netlogo", "textbook", "practical" ], "kinds": [ "book" ], "domains": [ "places", "people", "mobility" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": "/books/agent-based-modelling-and-geographical-information-systems/cover.jpg", "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/books/agent-based-modelling-and-geographical-information-systems/" }, { "id": "books/agent-based-models-of-geographical-systems", "label": "Agent-Based Models of Geographical Systems", "description": "Edited volume from Heppenstall, Crooks, See and Batty, 2012, collecting the foundations, methods and applications of agent-based modelling of geographic systems.", "tags": [ "agent-based", "geography", "simulation", "methods", "edited volume" ], "kinds": [ "book" ], "domains": [ "places", "people" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": "/books/agent-based-models-of-geographical-systems/cover.jpg", "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/books/agent-based-models-of-geographical-systems/" }, { "id": "books/cities-and-complexity", "label": "Cities and Complexity", "description": "Michael Batty's 2005 account of modelling cities with cellular automata, agent-based models and fractals, the bottom-up methods under much of today's urban simulation.", "tags": [ "cities", "cellular automata", "agent-based", "fractals", "simulation" ], "kinds": [ "book" ], "domains": [ "places" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": "/books/cities-and-complexity/cover.jpg", "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/books/cities-and-complexity/" }, { "id": "books/digital-twin-computing-for-urban-intelligence", "label": "Digital Twin Computing for Urban Intelligence", "description": "Edited volume from Pourroostaei Ardakani and Cheshmehzangi, 2024, on digital twin concepts, strategies and case studies for urban planning and sustainability.", "tags": [ "digital twin", "urban planning", "sustainability", "case studies", "edited volume" ], "kinds": [ "book" ], "domains": [ "places" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/books/digital-twin-computing-for-urban-intelligence/" }, { "id": "books/digital-twin-technologies-and-smart-cities", "label": "Digital Twin Technologies and Smart Cities", "description": "Edited volume from Farsi, Daneshkhah, Hosseinian-Far and Jahankhani, 2019, on using digital twins to monitor, diagnose and forecast city infrastructure, with attention to security.", "tags": [ "digital twin", "smart cities", "infrastructure", "iot", "edited volume" ], "kinds": [ "book" ], "domains": [ "places", "sensory" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": "/books/digital-twin-technologies-and-smart-cities/cover.jpg", "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/books/digital-twin-technologies-and-smart-cities/" }, { "id": "books/geodesign-urban-digital-twins-and-futures", "label": "Geodesign, Urban Digital Twins, and Futures", "description": "Paul Cureton and Elliot Hartley's 2025 book on the tools now used to plan, map and design the built environment: urban digital twins, GeoBIM, collaborative geodesign, immersive environments and futures methods.", "tags": [ "geodesign", "urban digital twin", "geobim", "planning", "futures" ], "kinds": [ "book" ], "domains": [ "places" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/books/geodesign-urban-digital-twins-and-futures/" }, { "id": "books/growing-artificial-societies", "label": "Growing Artificial Societies", "description": "Epstein and Axtell's 1996 Sugarscape experiments, which showed how migration, inequality, trade and conflict can grow from simple agents on a landscape; the founding book of agent-based social simulation.", "tags": [ "agent-based", "sugarscape", "emergence", "social simulation", "history" ], "kinds": [ "book" ], "domains": [ "people" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/books/growing-artificial-societies/" }, { "id": "books", "label": "Books", "description": "Literature on modelling places and systems.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "section" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": "list", "depiction": null, "status": "public", "updated": "", "url": "/books/" }, { "id": "books/inventing-future-cities", "label": "Inventing Future Cities", "description": "Michael Batty's 2018 book on why the future of cities can be invented but not predicted, and what that means for anyone who models them.", "tags": [ "cities", "prediction", "complexity", "planning", "data" ], "kinds": [ "book" ], "domains": [ "places" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": "/books/inventing-future-cities/cover.jpg", "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/books/inventing-future-cities/" }, { "id": "books/manual-of-digital-earth", "label": "Manual of Digital Earth", "description": "Open-access reference edited by Guo, Goodchild and Annoni, 2020, on the vision, technologies and uses of a digital model of the whole planet.", "tags": [ "digital earth", "remote sensing", "geospatial", "open access", "reference" ], "kinds": [ "book" ], "domains": [ "places", "climate" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/books/manual-of-digital-earth/" }, { "id": "books/mirror-worlds", "label": "Mirror Worlds", "description": "David Gelernter's 1991 book that first described software models of real places and institutions, fed by live data, that anyone could look into; the idea the digital twin of a place grows from.", "tags": [ "origin", "mirror world", "software", "city", "history" ], "kinds": [ "book" ], "domains": [ "places" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": "/books/mirror-worlds/cover.jpg", "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/books/mirror-worlds/" }, { "id": "books/seeing-like-a-state", "label": "Seeing Like a State", "description": "James C. Scott's 1998 study of why large schemes to reorder nature and society from above have failed, and of the local knowledge their simplified maps leave out.", "tags": [ "legibility", "planning", "state", "critique", "local knowledge" ], "kinds": [ "book" ], "domains": [ "places", "people" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": "/books/seeing-like-a-state/cover.jpg", "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/books/seeing-like-a-state/" }, { "id": "books/the-limits-to-growth", "label": "The Limits to Growth", "description": "The 1972 Club of Rome report by Meadows, Meadows, Randers and Behrens that used the World3 system-dynamics model to ask whether exponential growth in population and industry could continue on a finite planet.", "tags": [ "system dynamics", "world model", "club of rome", "resources", "history" ], "kinds": [ "book" ], "domains": [ "people", "food" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/books/the-limits-to-growth/" }, { "id": "books/the-new-science-of-cities", "label": "The New Science of Cities", "description": "Michael Batty's 2013 argument that cities are flows and networks rather than fixed artefacts, with the models that follow from treating them that way.", "tags": [ "cities", "networks", "flows", "simulation", "complexity" ], "kinds": [ "book" ], "domains": [ "places", "mobility", "people" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": "/books/the-new-science-of-cities/cover.jpg", "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/books/the-new-science-of-cities/" }, { "id": "books/the-smart-enough-city", "label": "The Smart Enough City", "description": "Ben Green's 2019 argument that cities should use technology as a tool for democratic and equitable ends rather than treat it as the goal, with cases of smart-city projects gone wrong and alternatives.", "tags": [ "smart cities", "critique", "equity", "technology", "policy" ], "kinds": [ "book" ], "domains": [ "places", "people", "mobility" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": "/books/the-smart-enough-city/cover.jpg", "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/books/the-smart-enough-city/" }, { "id": "books/the-weather-machine", "label": "The Weather Machine", "description": "Andrew Blum's 2019 account of the global system of stations, satellites, supercomputer models and institutions behind the daily weather forecast.", "tags": [ "weather", "forecasting", "infrastructure", "climate", "narrative" ], "kinds": [ "book" ], "domains": [ "climate" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": "/books/the-weather-machine/cover.jpg", "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/books/the-weather-machine/" }, { "id": "books/thinking-in-systems", "label": "Thinking in Systems", "description": "Donella Meadows's primer on systems thinking, published in 2008 from her draft manuscript, on stocks, flows, feedback and the places where a system can be changed.", "tags": [ "systems thinking", "feedback", "stocks and flows", "leverage points", "primer" ], "kinds": [ "book" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": "/books/thinking-in-systems/cover.jpg", "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/books/thinking-in-systems/" }, { "id": "books/urban-dynamics", "label": "Urban Dynamics", "description": "Jay Forrester's 1969 system-dynamics model of a city as feedback loops among population, housing and industry, the first computer model to simulate a whole city's life cycle.", "tags": [ "system dynamics", "cities", "feedback", "policy", "history" ], "kinds": [ "book" ], "domains": [ "places", "people" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/books/urban-dynamics/" }, { "id": "books/urban-informatics", "label": "Urban Informatics", "description": "Open-access edited volume from Shi, Goodchild, Batty, Kwan and Zhang, 2021, on the data, methods and infrastructure used to sense, model and run cities.", "tags": [ "urban informatics", "smart cities", "data", "remote sensing", "open access" ], "kinds": [ "book" ], "domains": [ "places", "sensory", "mobility" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/books/urban-informatics/" }, { "id": "books/world-dynamics", "label": "World Dynamics", "description": "Jay Forrester's 1971 system-dynamics model of the world as one system of population, capital, food, resources and pollution; the model behind The Limits to Growth.", "tags": [ "system dynamics", "world model", "resources", "population", "history" ], "kinds": [ "book" ], "domains": [ "people", "food" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": "/books/world-dynamics/cover.jpg", "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/books/world-dynamics/" }, { "id": "data-sources/blue-corridors-bluecorridors-org", "label": "Protecting Blue Corridors", "description": "Web map from WWF and partners of whale migration routes built from pooled satellite telemetry, with threat and protection layers alongside; free to browse at bluecorridors.org.", "tags": [ "whales", "satellite tracking", "migration", "ocean", "conservation" ], "kinds": [ "datasource" ], "domains": [ "ecology" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/data-sources/blue-corridors-bluecorridors-org/" }, { "id": "data-sources/census-apis", "label": "Census APIs", "description": "Demographic and socioeconomic datasets.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "datasource" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/data-sources/census-apis/" }, { "id": "data-sources/copernicus-data-space", "label": "Copernicus Data Space", "description": "Satellite observations and Earth-observation processing.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "datasource" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "proposed", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/data-sources/copernicus-data-space/" }, { "id": "data-sources/coralscapes-coralscapesv2", "label": "Coralscapes and CoralscapesV2", "description": "Densely annotated underwater image datasets of Red Sea coral reefs from EPFL and partners for training segmentation models; V2 adds panoptic labels, 95 classes and fish instances, and is the training data behind DeepReefMap.", "tags": [ "coral reefs", "segmentation", "underwater imagery", "training data", "red sea" ], "kinds": [ "datasource" ], "domains": [ "ecology", "sensory" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/data-sources/coralscapes-coralscapesv2/" }, { "id": "data-sources/cornell-nyc-individual-tree-map", "label": "NYC Tree Genus Map", "description": "Map and dataset from Cornell researchers of about 1.8 million individual tree crowns in New York City classified to genus from PlanetScope satellite imagery and airborne lidar, including trees on private land and in natural areas; published August 2026.", "tags": [ "urban trees", "new york city", "lidar", "tree species", "urban heat" ], "kinds": [ "datasource" ], "domains": [ "ecology", "climate" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/data-sources/cornell-nyc-individual-tree-map/" }, { "id": "data-sources/ctrees-3d-fuels-model", "label": "CTrees 3D Fuels", "description": "Lidar-derived model from CTrees of forest fire fuels as one-metre voxels carrying canopy, ladder and ground fuel properties, demonstrated at three US sites and published as open 3D arrays for fire models to read.", "tags": [ "wildfire", "fuels", "lidar", "forest structure", "voxels" ], "kinds": [ "datasource" ], "domains": [ "fire", "ecology" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/data-sources/ctrees-3d-fuels-model/" }, { "id": "data-sources/geoexpertqueries", "label": "GeoExpertQueries", "description": "Benchmark from Google Research of open-ended GIS analysis problems written and cross-checked by geospatial experts, used to test how well an AI agent plans an expert-level spatial analysis.", "tags": [ "benchmark", "gis", "ai agents", "geospatial reasoning", "evaluation" ], "kinds": [ "datasource" ], "domains": [ "places" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/data-sources/geoexpertqueries/" }, { "id": "data-sources/geoktools", "label": "GeoKTools", "description": "Benchmark from Google Research of generated geospatial queries with known answers that require chaining one to four kinds of geospatial tool; used to test an AI agent's multi-step tool use and exact spatial computation.", "tags": [ "benchmark", "tool use", "ai agents", "geospatial reasoning", "evaluation" ], "kinds": [ "datasource" ], "domains": [ "places" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/data-sources/geoktools/" }, { "id": "data-sources/global-safety-net-v3-gsn3", "label": "Global Safety Net v3", "description": "Global map from One Earth and Nature Data Lab of lands and inland waters important for biodiversity, ecosystem services and climate, with land cover and conservation status, designed to be updated every year; launched September 2026 as a free web viewer.", "tags": [ "conservation", "biodiversity", "land cover", "protected areas", "global" ], "kinds": [ "datasource" ], "domains": [ "ecology", "places" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/data-sources/global-safety-net-v3-gsn3/" }, { "id": "data-sources/inaturalist-service-in-arcgis-living-atlas", "label": "iNaturalist Species Observations", "description": "Esri feature service in ArcGIS Living Atlas that serves iNaturalist's research-grade observations worldwide, refreshed monthly, with hexagon summaries at small scales.", "tags": [ "biodiversity", "gis", "observations", "living atlas", "feature service" ], "kinds": [ "datasource" ], "domains": [ "ecology", "places" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/data-sources/inaturalist-service-in-arcgis-living-atlas/" }, { "id": "data-sources/inaturalist", "label": "iNaturalist", "description": "Community platform where people photograph plants, animals and fungi and others identify them; the observations are published as open biodiversity data for research and conservation.", "tags": [ "biodiversity", "species", "observations", "community science", "open data" ], "kinds": [ "datasource" ], "domains": [ "ecology", "people" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/data-sources/inaturalist/" }, { "id": "data-sources", "label": "Data", "description": "Sources of data a model of a place can be fed with.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "section" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": "list", "depiction": null, "status": "public", "updated": "", "url": "/data-sources/" }, { "id": "data-sources/openstreetmap-osm", "label": "OpenStreetMap", "description": "Volunteer-built open map database of the world, covering roads, buildings, land use and places; the base layer most digital twins of places start from.", "tags": [ "map", "open data", "roads", "buildings", "geospatial" ], "kinds": [ "datasource" ], "domains": [ "places", "mobility" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/data-sources/openstreetmap-osm/" }, { "id": "data-sources/orcapelago", "label": "Orcapelago", "description": "Web map of orca and other whale sightings in the Salish Sea, placed on the map from the narrative reports in Orca Network newsletters.", "tags": [ "orca", "whales", "sightings", "salish sea", "map" ], "kinds": [ "datasource" ], "domains": [ "ecology" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/data-sources/orcapelago/" }, { "id": "data-sources/usgs-water-data", "label": "USGS Water Data", "description": "Stream, groundwater and other water observations.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "datasource" ], "domains": [ "water" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "proposed", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/data-sources/usgs-water-data/" }, { "id": "data-sources/wikimedia-enterprise-openstreetmap-joined-dataset", "label": "Linked OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikipedia and Wikivoyage dataset", "description": "Wikimedia Enterprise's open Parquet dataset joining about 17 million OpenStreetMap features to Wikidata items, Wikipedia and Wikivoyage articles, built by Michal Migurski.", "tags": [ "openstreetmap", "wikidata", "linked data", "parquet", "places" ], "kinds": [ "datasource" ], "domains": [ "places" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/data-sources/wikimedia-enterprise-openstreetmap-joined-dataset/" }, { "id": "domains/climate", "label": "Weather & climate", "description": "Atmosphere is the symbol; pastel lavender is the colour.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "domain" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": "/domains/climate/symbol.svg", "status": "public", "updated": "", "url": "/domains/climate/" }, { "id": "domains/ecology", "label": "Living systems", "description": "Habitat is the symbol; pastel mint is the colour.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "domain" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": "/domains/ecology/symbol.svg", "status": "public", "updated": "", "url": "/domains/ecology/" }, { "id": "domains/energy", "label": "Energy", "description": "Transmission tower is the symbol; pastel gold is the colour.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "domain" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": "/domains/energy/symbol.svg", "status": "public", "updated": "", "url": "/domains/energy/" }, { "id": "domains/fire", "label": "Fire", "description": "Flame is the symbol; pastel apricot is the colour.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "domain" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": "/domains/fire/symbol.svg", "status": "public", "updated": "", "url": "/domains/fire/" }, { "id": "domains/food", "label": "Food & land", "description": "Cultivated landscape is the symbol; pastel lime is the colour.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "domain" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": "/domains/food/symbol.svg", "status": "public", "updated": "", "url": "/domains/food/" }, { "id": "domains", "label": "Domains", "description": "The ten themes a place can be modelled in, each with its symbol and colour.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "section" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": "domains", "depiction": null, "status": "public", "updated": "", "url": "/domains/" }, { "id": "domains/mobility", "label": "Movement & logistics", "description": "Rail junction is the symbol; pastel aqua is the colour.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "domain" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": "/domains/mobility/symbol.svg", "status": "public", "updated": "", "url": "/domains/mobility/" }, { "id": "domains/people", "label": "People & society", "description": "People at a table is the symbol; pastel rose is the colour.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "domain" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": "/domains/people/symbol.svg", "status": "public", "updated": "", "url": "/domains/people/" }, { "id": "domains/places", "label": "Cities & places", "description": "City blocks is the symbol; pastel coral is the colour.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "domain" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": "/domains/places/symbol.svg", "status": "public", "updated": "", "url": "/domains/places/" }, { "id": "domains/sensory", "label": "Sensory landscape", "description": "Senses is the symbol; pastel periwinkle is the colour.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "domain" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": "/domains/sensory/symbol.svg", "status": "public", "updated": "", "url": "/domains/sensory/" }, { "id": "domains/water", "label": "Water", "description": "River is the symbol; pastel blue is the colour.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "domain" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": "/domains/water/symbol.svg", "status": "public", "updated": "", "url": "/domains/water/" }, { "id": "engines/adaptbase-adaptbase-search", "label": "AdaptBase", "description": "Knowledge graph of urban climate adaptation plans from the Urban Tech Hub at Cornell Tech; AI agents read city plans and extract actions, hazards, outcomes and costs, each traced to its source sentence.", "tags": [ "adaptation", "climate", "cities", "knowledge graph", "plans" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "places", "climate", "people" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/adaptbase-adaptbase-search/" }, { "id": "engines/aifs", "label": "AIFS", "description": "ECMWF's machine-learning global weather model, run operationally beside its physics-based system since 2025; weights published openly.", "tags": [ "weather", "forecast", "machine learning", "ecmwf", "global" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "climate" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/aifs/" }, { "id": "engines/aimsun", "label": "Aimsun", "description": "Transport simulation and operational traffic prediction.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "mobility" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/aimsun/" }, { "id": "engines/alphaearth-prithvi", "label": "AlphaEarth / Prithvi", "description": "Geospatial representations and foundation models for downstream mapping tasks.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/alphaearth-prithvi/" }, { "id": "engines/anuga", "label": "ANUGA", "description": "Open-source shallow-water solver from Geoscience Australia and the Australian National University for simulating floods, tsunamis and storm surge.", "tags": [ "flood", "tsunami", "hydrodynamics", "shallow water", "python" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "water" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/anuga/" }, { "id": "engines/anylogic", "label": "AnyLogic", "description": "Agent-based, discrete-event and system-dynamics modeling; pedestrian and transport libraries.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "people" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/anylogic/" }, { "id": "engines/aurora", "label": "Aurora", "description": "Microsoft Research foundation model for the Earth system, fine-tuned for global weather, air pollution and ocean-wave forecasting; code and weights open under MIT.", "tags": [ "weather", "forecast", "foundation model", "air quality", "waves" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "climate" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/aurora/" }, { "id": "engines/azure-digital-twins-aws-iot-twinmaker", "label": "Azure Digital Twins / AWS IoT TwinMaker", "description": "Represent entities and relationships and connect data within twin applications.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/azure-digital-twins-aws-iot-twinmaker/" }, { "id": "engines/bentley-itwin", "label": "Bentley iTwin", "description": "Integrates infrastructure engineering, geographic, reality and sensor data.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/bentley-itwin/" }, { "id": "engines/climate-indices-climate-indices", "label": "climate_indices", "description": "Open-source Python library by James Adams that computes drought, fire and flood-potential indices such as SPI, SPEI, the Palmer family and KBDI from station or gridded precipitation and temperature.", "tags": [ "drought", "wildfire", "flood", "indices", "python", "climate" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "climate", "water", "fire" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/climate-indices-climate-indices/" }, { "id": "engines/climate-x-urbanfootprint", "label": "Climate X / UrbanFootprint", "description": "Analyzes climate exposure, vulnerability and investment choices.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "fire" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/climate-x-urbanfootprint/" }, { "id": "engines/comapeo-awana-digital", "label": "CoMapeo", "description": "Open-source Android app from the non-profit Awana Digital for territory monitoring and mapping, co-designed with Indigenous communities; teams record observations on a map and share them peer to peer.", "tags": [ "mapping", "indigenous", "territory", "monitoring", "android", "community" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "people", "places" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/comapeo-awana-digital/" }, { "id": "engines/community-fish-detector-cfd", "label": "Community Fish Detector", "description": "Open single-class fish detector built by Filippo Varini and a group of contributors, trained on seventeen open datasets pooled into one; finds fish in underwater images and video from any camera or habitat.", "tags": [ "fish", "detection", "underwater", "computer vision", "marine", "open weights" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "ecology", "water" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/community-fish-detector-cfd/" }, { "id": "engines/credo", "label": "CReDO", "description": "Models hazards and infrastructure dependencies to examine cascading impacts.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/credo/" }, { "id": "engines/dafni-asu-cici-and-sparc", "label": "DAFNI / ASU CICI and SPARC", "description": "DAFNI supports infrastructure modeling; Wenwen Li’s research addresses GeoAI and geospatial integration.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/dafni-asu-cici-and-sparc/" }, { "id": "engines/deepreefmap", "label": "DeepReefMap", "description": "Open-source pipeline from EPFL's ECEO lab that turns handheld underwater video of coral reefs into labelled 3D point clouds, orthomosaics and benthic cover statistics.", "tags": [ "coral", "reef", "3d reconstruction", "segmentation", "underwater", "video" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "ecology", "water" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/deepreefmap/" }, { "id": "engines/delft-fews-flood-hub-integration", "label": "Delft-FEWS import of Google Flood Hub forecasts", "description": "Feature of Deltares' Delft-FEWS forecasting platform, from version 2026.02, that pulls Google Flood Hub river forecasts and flood status through Google's Flood Forecasting API so forecasters can compare them with their own models and observations.", "tags": [ "flood", "forecast", "river", "hydrology", "deltares", "google" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "water", "climate" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/delft-fews-flood-hub-integration/" }, { "id": "engines/deltares-delft3d", "label": "Deltares Delft3D", "description": "Models coastal, estuarine and river systems, including water flow and related processes.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "water" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "proposed", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/deltares-delft3d/" }, { "id": "engines/destination-earth", "label": "Destination Earth", "description": "Climate and extremes twins with supporting computing and data workflows.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "climate" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/destination-earth/" }, { "id": "engines/dhi", "label": "DHI", "description": "Combines water-system modeling with operational data, including wastewater treatment twins.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "water" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "proposed", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/dhi/" }, { "id": "engines/dronemegadetector", "label": "DroneMegaDetector", "description": "Open object detector from the ConservationDronesAI group, built on RF-DETR, that finds people, mammals and vehicles in drone imagery for wildlife surveys and counts.", "tags": [ "drone", "wildlife", "detection", "aerial", "computer vision", "survey" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "ecology", "sensory" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/dronemegadetector/" }, { "id": "engines/dssat", "label": "DSSAT", "description": "Simulates crop growth under specified weather, soil and management conditions.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "food" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/dssat/" }, { "id": "engines/earth-genome-earth-index", "label": "Earth Genome / Earth Index", "description": "Finds environmental features in satellite imagery through examples, search and review.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "food" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "proposed", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/earth-genome-earth-index/" }, { "id": "engines/eclipse-sumo", "label": "Eclipse SUMO", "description": "Simulates road vehicles, public transport and pedestrians on large networks.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "mobility" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/eclipse-sumo/" }, { "id": "engines/emergentbiome", "label": "EmergentBiome Molecular Atlas", "description": "Molecular atlas that links microbial genes and transcripts from wetland and coastal sediments to field measurements of methane, nitrous oxide and sulfur, as evidence for blue-carbon projects; contacts are at Ecosphere Blue, whose MethaNet product is built on it.", "tags": [ "methane", "blue carbon", "microbial", "genomics", "wetlands", "mrv" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "ecology", "water", "climate" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/emergentbiome/" }, { "id": "engines/en-roads", "label": "En-ROADS", "description": "Explores combinations of climate policies and their modeled effects.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "people" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "proposed", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/en-roads/" }, { "id": "engines/esri-arcgis", "label": "Esri ArcGIS", "description": "Maps, spatial analysis and geographic data for city and infrastructure applications.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/esri-arcgis/" }, { "id": "engines/extinction-explorer", "label": "Extinction Explorer", "description": "Prototype web app by Hannah Nisonson of Esri's Applications Prototype Lab that links a 3D map of species observations in the San Bernardino National Forest with a 3D food-web graph, and shows what else is affected when a species is removed.", "tags": [ "biodiversity", "knowledge graph", "food web", "species", "arcgis", "3d" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "ecology" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/extinction-explorer/" }, { "id": "engines/firevision-opalai", "label": "FireVision", "description": "Wildfire risk platform from Opal AI Inc. of Marina del Rey, California, that combines imagery, lidar, GIS, weather and field data into risk rankings and mitigation recommendations for utilities, fire agencies and insurers.", "tags": [ "wildfire", "risk", "utilities", "insurance", "fuel", "mitigation" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "fire" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/firevision-opalai/" }, { "id": "engines/flaim-earthdaily-fire-likelihood-ai-model", "label": "Fire Likelihood AI Model (FLAIM)", "description": "EarthDaily's wildfire risk model, which combines satellite observations, daily weather and other geospatial data into ignition likelihood, fuel hazard and directional vulnerability layers, sold to insurers in the western United States.", "tags": [ "wildfire", "insurance", "risk", "satellite", "fuel", "earthdaily" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "fire" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/flaim-earthdaily-fire-likelihood-ai-model/" }, { "id": "engines/frigis", "label": "friGIS", "description": "Tropocen's browser-based GIS for urban heat adaptation, with a 3D model of a city district, PALM-4U microclimate simulation and a planning editor for comparing cooling measures.", "tags": [ "urban heat", "microclimate", "climate adaptation", "3d city model", "germany", "planning" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "places", "climate" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/frigis/" }, { "id": "engines/gama", "label": "GAMA", "description": "Spatial agent-based models for urban mobility, evacuation, environmental and other applications.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "people" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/gama/" }, { "id": "engines/gcam", "label": "GCAM", "description": "Connects energy, water, land, economy and climate in regional and global scenarios.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "food" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/gcam/" }, { "id": "engines/geodesignhub", "label": "Geodesignhub", "description": "Organizes spatial proposals, alternatives and stakeholder negotiation.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "people" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "proposed", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/geodesignhub/" }, { "id": "engines/google-earth-ai-geospatial-reasoning-agent", "label": "Google Earth AI Geospatial Reasoning agent", "description": "Experimental Gemini-based agent from Google Research that plans a multi-step spatial analysis, calls Earth AI models and geospatial data sources, and returns the result with its plan and sources shown.", "tags": [ "geospatial", "agent", "gemini", "satellite", "analysis", "gis" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "places", "people", "climate", "energy" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/google-earth-ai-geospatial-reasoning-agent/" }, { "id": "engines/google-earth-ai", "label": "Google Earth AI", "description": "Google's family of geospatial AI models and agents, covering satellite imagery, weather, floods and population, reached through Google Earth, Earth Engine, BigQuery, Maps Platform and Google Cloud.", "tags": [ "geospatial", "satellite", "weather", "flood", "population", "foundation model" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "places", "people", "climate", "water", "energy" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/google-earth-ai/" }, { "id": "engines/google-flood-hub", "label": "Google Flood Hub", "description": "Free public site from Google Research with riverine flood forecasts, flood maps and water trends for river basins in over 150 countries, updated daily; the same forecasts reach Search, Maps and Android and can be pulled by API.", "tags": [ "flood", "river", "forecast", "hydrology", "warning", "inundation" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "water", "climate" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/google-flood-hub/" }, { "id": "engines/google-hydrological-modeling-framework-unnamed-in-export", "label": "OpenHydroNet", "description": "Google Research's open-source hydrology framework, a Python package that replicates the LSTM river-flow models behind Flood Hub so forecasters can train or fine-tune them on their own watersheds.", "tags": [ "hydrology", "flood", "forecast", "lstm", "open source", "river" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "water" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/google-hydrological-modeling-framework-unnamed-in-export/" }, { "id": "engines/helics-fmi", "label": "HELICS / FMI", "description": "Coordinate model execution or exchange model information.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/helics-fmi/" }, { "id": "engines/hydrata", "label": "Hydrata", "description": "Browser-based flood modelling platform that runs the open-source ANUGA solver in the cloud; users draw a model, run scenarios and compare the results with historic floods, free when the model is shared publicly.", "tags": [ "flood", "hydraulics", "anuga", "cloud", "modelling", "browser" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "water" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/hydrata/" }, { "id": "engines/ies", "label": "IES", "description": "Building and district energy modeling, performance analysis and retrofit scenarios.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "energy" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/ies/" }, { "id": "engines", "label": "Engines", "description": "Engines, platforms and models that twins are built with.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "section" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": "list", "depiction": null, "status": "public", "updated": "", "url": "/engines/" }, { "id": "engines/invest", "label": "InVEST", "description": "Maps and values ecosystem services in terrestrial, freshwater, coastal and urban settings.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "food" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "proposed", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/invest/" }, { "id": "engines/laxmi", "label": "Laxmi", "description": "AI weather model from Schmitt, Jain and co-authors that retrains ECMWF's AIFS on satellite precipitation observations to forecast rain more accurately at the local scale.", "tags": [ "weather", "precipitation", "forecast", "satellite", "ai model" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "climate", "water" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/laxmi/" }, { "id": "engines/lingbot-map", "label": "LingBot-Map", "description": "Open-source streaming 3D reconstruction model from the Robbyant team at Ant Group; turns a video or image sequence into camera poses, depth and point clouds in one feed-forward pass.", "tags": [ "3d reconstruction", "computer vision", "point cloud", "video", "open source" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "sensory" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/lingbot-map/" }, { "id": "engines/matsim", "label": "MATSim", "description": "Large-scale agent-based transport modeling, including travel demand and replanning.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "mobility" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/matsim/" }, { "id": "engines/megadetector-pytorch-wildlife-ecosystem", "label": "PyTorch-Wildlife and MegaDetector", "description": "Open-source family of wildlife detection models and tools from Microsoft's AI for Good Lab; MegaDetector finds animals, people and vehicles in camera-trap images, and PyTorch-Wildlife is the framework that runs it and its siblings for aerial and acoustic data.", "tags": [ "wildlife", "camera trap", "detection", "conservation", "open source", "computer vision" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "ecology", "sensory" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/megadetector-pytorch-wildlife-ecosystem/" }, { "id": "engines/methanet", "label": "MethaNet", "description": "Ecosphere Blue's planned assessment service for blue-carbon projects, rating project performance with methane-risk projections drawn from microbial genomic evidence in mangrove sediment.", "tags": [ "blue carbon", "methane", "mangrove", "microbiome", "carbon credits" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "ecology", "climate", "water" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/methanet/" }, { "id": "engines/multiset-ai-drone-mapping-and-vps", "label": "MultiSet AI Drone to VPS", "description": "Hosted mapping and visual positioning service from MultiSet AI that turns one drone flight over a site into a localisation map which drones, phones, headsets and robots then query for their position.", "tags": [ "visual positioning", "drone mapping", "localization", "robotics", "spatial computing" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "sensory", "places" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/multiset-ai-drone-mapping-and-vps/" }, { "id": "engines/neara", "label": "Neara", "description": "Models electricity-network geometry and physical behavior using asset and spatial data.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "energy" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/neara/" }, { "id": "engines/niantic-spatial-places-library-real-to-sim-to-real", "label": "Niantic Spatial Places Library", "description": "Catalogue from Niantic Spatial of 100 real-world environments captured as simulation-ready USDZ scenes, for training and testing robot policies in Isaac Sim and other OpenUSD simulators.", "tags": [ "gaussian splat", "simulation", "robotics", "3d capture", "usd" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "sensory", "places" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/niantic-spatial-places-library-real-to-sim-to-real/" }, { "id": "engines/nvidia-cosmos", "label": "NVIDIA Cosmos", "description": "NVIDIA's family of world foundation models and tools for physical AI; generates and reasons over video of the physical world for robot training, simulation and synthetic sensor data.", "tags": [ "world model", "physical ai", "synthetic data", "robotics", "video generation" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "sensory" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/nvidia-cosmos/" }, { "id": "engines/nvidia-isaac-sim", "label": "NVIDIA Isaac Sim", "description": "NVIDIA's open-source robotics simulator built on Omniverse and OpenUSD; used to train, test and validate robots in physically based virtual environments and to generate synthetic training data.", "tags": [ "robotics", "simulation", "synthetic data", "openusd", "open source" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "sensory" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/nvidia-isaac-sim/" }, { "id": "engines/odyssey-3", "label": "Odyssey-3", "description": "World model from Odyssey that generates an interactive 3D environment from a prompt and predicts how it changes as a person or agent moves and acts in it.", "tags": [ "world model", "simulation", "robotics", "driving", "video" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "sensory", "mobility" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/odyssey-3/" }, { "id": "engines/openfoam", "label": "OpenFOAM", "description": "Free, open-source computational fluid dynamics software, maintained in two lines by OpenCFD Ltd and by the OpenFOAM Foundation; used for flow, turbulence, heat and multiphase problems across engineering and science.", "tags": [ "cfd", "fluid dynamics", "open source", "simulation", "waves" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "water" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/openfoam/" }, { "id": "engines/openusd-omniverse", "label": "OpenUSD", "description": "Universal Scene Description, the open 3D scene format and software platform created by Pixar and now stewarded by the Alliance for OpenUSD; the scene layer under NVIDIA Omniverse and many simulation pipelines.", "tags": [ "3d", "scene format", "interoperability", "usd", "omniverse" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "sensory" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/openusd-omniverse/" }, { "id": "engines/overhead-wildlife-locator-owl-megadetector-overhead", "label": "MegaDetector-Overhead (OWL)", "description": "Open-source detector from the Microsoft AI for Good Lab that finds wildlife in aerial and drone survey imagery; ships the OWL model family and extends MegaDetector from camera traps to overhead views.", "tags": [ "wildlife", "drone", "aerial survey", "detection", "counting" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "ecology" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/overhead-wildlife-locator-owl-megadetector-overhead/" }, { "id": "engines/paraview", "label": "ParaView", "description": "Open-source data analysis and visualization application from Kitware, used to look at the output of simulations from laptop to supercomputer scale.", "tags": [ "visualization", "scientific", "post-processing", "open source", "cfd" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/paraview/" }, { "id": "engines/planetary-prediction-engine", "label": "Planetary Prediction Engine", "description": "Part of Google Earth AI; given a user's local outcome data such as disease rates or crop yields, it picks relevant population and satellite signals and trains models for spatial prediction, downscaling and forecasting.", "tags": [ "geospatial", "prediction", "public health", "satellite", "population" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "people", "food" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/planetary-prediction-engine/" }, { "id": "engines/population-dynamics-foundations-pdfm", "label": "Population Dynamics Foundation Model (PDFM)", "description": "Google Research geospatial foundation model that turns aggregated search trends, place busyness, maps, weather and air quality into an embedding vector per postal code or county, for predicting local health, economic and environmental indicators.", "tags": [ "geospatial", "embeddings", "population", "public health", "foundation model" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "people", "places" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/population-dynamics-foundations-pdfm/" }, { "id": "engines/pypsa-pypsa-eur", "label": "PyPSA / PyPSA-Eur", "description": "Models power systems and energy transitions; PyPSA-Eur also represents transport, buildings and industry.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "energy" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/pypsa-pypsa-eur/" }, { "id": "engines/r-avaflow", "label": "r.avaflow", "description": "Open-source, GIS-supported simulator by Martin Mergili and Shiva P. Pudasaini for rapid mass flows such as landslides, debris flows and glacial lake outburst floods, including chains of one process feeding the next.", "tags": [ "landslide", "debris flow", "mass flow", "outburst flood", "simulation", "grass gis" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "water" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/r-avaflow/" }, { "id": "engines/reforest-latam-tnc-gran-chaco-drone-restoration", "label": "Gran Chaco drone reforestation pilot", "description": "Pilot by The Nature Conservancy Argentina and the startup ReForest Latam that seeds native trees from drones on degraded farmland in Argentina's Gran Chaco.", "tags": [ "reforestation", "drone seeding", "gran chaco", "argentina", "native trees" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "ecology" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/reforest-latam-tnc-gran-chaco-drone-restoration/" }, { "id": "engines/replica", "label": "Replica", "description": "Modeled travel activity and scenario tools for transport and regional planning.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "mobility" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/replica/" }, { "id": "engines/sparrow", "label": "SPARROW", "description": "Open-source, solar-powered edge device from Microsoft's AI for Good Lab that runs camera-trap and bioacoustic AI models on site and sends the results out by satellite or GSM, for biodiversity monitoring in remote places.", "tags": [ "biodiversity", "camera trap", "bioacoustics", "edge ai", "satellite", "wildlife monitoring" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "ecology" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/sparrow/" }, { "id": "engines/surfslam", "label": "SurfSLAM", "description": "Real-time underwater SLAM from the University of Michigan field robotics group that fuses learned stereo depth with IMU, pressure and Doppler velocity log measurements; developed and tested on shipwreck surveys.", "tags": [ "underwater", "slam", "stereo vision", "robotics", "shipwreck", "3d reconstruction" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "water", "sensory" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/surfslam/" }, { "id": "engines/technosylva", "label": "Technosylva", "description": "Models wildfire behavior and exposure for fire agencies and electric utilities.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "fire" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/technosylva/" }, { "id": "engines/uk-ndtp", "label": "UK NDTP", "description": "Develops approaches for applying connected data and twins to public and infrastructure questions.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "energy" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/uk-ndtp/" }, { "id": "engines/urbanly-citycompass", "label": "Urbanly CityCompass", "description": "Explores linked urban scenarios using a simulation engine and browser interfaces.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "places" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/urbanly-citycompass/" }, { "id": "engines/urbansim", "label": "UrbanSim", "description": "Models location choice, development and urban growth, with transport-model integration.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "places" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/urbansim/" }, { "id": "engines/vantor-act-illegal-mining-monitoring", "label": "ACT and Vantor illegal-mining monitoring", "description": "The Amazon Conservation Team and the AARIMO network use Vantor satellite imagery to find and track illegal gold-mining dredges along the Puré River in the Colombian Amazon and pass the findings to enforcement agencies.", "tags": [ "satellite", "mining", "amazon", "enforcement", "indigenous", "river" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "ecology", "people" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/vantor-act-illegal-mining-monitoring/" }, { "id": "engines/vggt", "label": "VGGT-Ω", "description": "Feed-forward 3D vision model from Meta AI and Oxford's Visual Geometry Group that predicts camera poses, depth and point clouds from video; used as a reconstruction backend in DeepReefMap for coral reef mapping.", "tags": [ "3d reconstruction", "computer vision", "depth", "camera pose", "coral reef", "video" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "sensory" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/vggt/" }, { "id": "engines/vu-city-clara", "label": "VU.CITY / CLARA", "description": "VU.CITY supplies 3D planning context; CLARA models urban environmental conditions.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "places" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/vu-city-clara/" }, { "id": "engines/wansec", "label": "Wave Attenuation: Natural Solutions with Elkhorn Coral (WANSEC)", "description": "Caribbean project testing whether dense restored stands of elkhorn coral reduce wave energy and sediment movement along coasts, with sites in Jamaica, Barbados and Antigua & Barbuda; funded by the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund.", "tags": [ "coral", "restoration", "wave attenuation", "coastal protection", "caribbean", "elkhorn" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "ecology", "water" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/wansec/" }, { "id": "engines/weathernext-nvidia-earth-2", "label": "WeatherNext / NVIDIA Earth-2", "description": "Weather prediction and supporting components, with different distribution and developer options.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "climate" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/weathernext-nvidia-earth-2/" }, { "id": "engines/wildflow-coral", "label": "Wildflow Coral", "description": "Wildflow's platform for coral reefs, where divers upload footage and get georeferenced 3D models, orthomosaics and bathymetry for tracking a reef over time, with the stated aim of a digital twin of any reef.", "tags": [ "coral", "reef", "photogrammetry", "restoration", "monitoring", "open source" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "ecology" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/wildflow-coral/" }, { "id": "engines/world-labs-atlas", "label": "World Labs / Atlas", "description": "Learns spatial representations for scene reconstruction, generation and robotics simulation.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/world-labs-atlas/" }, { "id": "engines/xylem-vue", "label": "Xylem Vue", "description": "Combines utility data and water-system modeling for network operations.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "water" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "proposed", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/engines/xylem-vue/" }, { "id": "engines/yellowfin-coral-repeat-survey-workflow", "label": "Yellowfin", "description": "Robotic surface vehicle from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, built by Peter Traykovski and adapted for Anne Cohen's reef work, that photographs shallow coral reefs along GPS-tagged tracks so the same colonies can be checked again after each heat wave.", "tags": [ "coral", "reef survey", "robot", "imagery", "bleaching", "marshall islands" ], "kinds": [ "tool" ], "domains": [ "ecology", "water" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/engines/yellowfin-coral-repeat-survey-workflow/" }, { "id": "events", "label": "Events", "description": "Conferences, workshops and calls in GIS and digital twins.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "section" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": "list", "depiction": null, "status": "public", "updated": "", "url": "/events/" }, { "id": "events/leonardo-earth-climate-and-planetary-imagination", "label": "Earth, Climate, and Planetary Imagination", "description": "Call for papers from Leonardo/ISAST for a focus section of the journal Leonardo on art, science and technology work about climate, environmental justice and ecological repair; manuscripts due 15 December 2026.", "tags": [ "call for papers", "art and science", "climate", "environmental justice", "leonardo" ], "kinds": [ "event" ], "domains": [ "climate", "ecology" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/events/leonardo-earth-climate-and-planetary-imagination/" }, { "id": "events/planetary-berlin-governing-hydrological-continuities", "label": "Planetary Berlin: Governing Hydrological Continuities", "description": "Scenario session at the Public Vitality Camp Berlin 2026, moderated by Dark Matter Labs, BiberAmt Berlin and nextlearning e.V., on governing the Berlin–Brandenburg water system across jurisdictions using measures from Berlin's Masterplan Wasser.", "tags": [ "water", "governance", "berlin", "groundwater", "peatlands", "workshop" ], "kinds": [ "event" ], "domains": [ "water", "people", "ecology" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/events/planetary-berlin-governing-hydrological-continuities/" }, { "id": "events/urban-climate-futures-special-issue", "label": "Urban Climate Futures: AI and Smart City Solutions", "description": "Special issue call from the journal Sustainability in Smart Cities (Bon View Publishing) on AI and smart-city methods for climate mitigation, adaptation and resilience at building, neighbourhood and city scale, digital twins among the listed topics; submissions due 1 June 2027.", "tags": [ "call for papers", "smart cities", "urban heat", "climate resilience", "special issue" ], "kinds": [ "event" ], "domains": [ "places", "climate" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/events/urban-climate-futures-special-issue/" }, { "id": "flows", "label": "Flows", "description": "Decision paths drawn as diagrams.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "section" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": "list", "depiction": null, "status": "public", "updated": "", "url": "/flows/" }, { "id": "flows/so-you-want-a-digital-twin", "label": "So you want to make a digital twin?", "description": "Five questions. Most people get off before the last one.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "flow" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "proposed", "updated": "2026-10-02", "url": "/flows/so-you-want-a-digital-twin/" }, { "id": "guides/build-the-smallest-version", "label": "Build the smallest version", "description": "Not yet written.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "guide" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-02", "url": "/guides/build-the-smallest-version/" }, { "id": "guides/check-it-against-what-happened", "label": "Check it against what happened", "description": "Not yet written.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "guide" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-02", "url": "/guides/check-it-against-what-happened/" }, { "id": "guides/choose-the-kind-of-model", "label": "Choose the kind of model", "description": "Not yet written.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "guide" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-02", "url": "/guides/choose-the-kind-of-model/" }, { "id": "guides/find-the-data", "label": "Find the data", "description": "Not yet written.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "guide" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-02", "url": "/guides/find-the-data/" }, { "id": "guides", "label": "Guides", "description": "So you want to make a digital twin? The stages, one entry each.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "section" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": "list", "depiction": null, "status": "public", "updated": "", "url": "/guides/" }, { "id": "guides/keep-it-alive", "label": "Keep it alive", "description": "Not yet written.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "guide" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-02", "url": "/guides/keep-it-alive/" }, { "id": "guides/name-the-question", "label": "Name the question", "description": "Not yet written.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "guide" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-02", "url": "/guides/name-the-question/" }, { "id": "guides/protect-people-s-privacy", "label": "Protect people's privacy", "description": "Not yet written.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "guide" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-02", "url": "/guides/protect-people-s-privacy/" }, { "id": "guides/put-it-in-front-of-its-users", "label": "Put it in front of its users", "description": "Not yet written.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "guide" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-02", "url": "/guides/put-it-in-front-of-its-users/" }, { "id": "guides/talk-to-the-people-affected", "label": "Talk to the people affected", "description": "Not yet written.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "guide" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-02", "url": "/guides/talk-to-the-people-affected/" }, { "id": "", "label": "Digital Twins Wiki", "description": "Cities, infrastructure, populations and ecosystems", "tags": [], "kinds": [], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": "home", "depiction": null, "status": "public", "updated": "2026-10-15", "url": "/" }, { "id": "organizations/amazon-ia-amazon-ia", "label": "Amazon.ia", "description": "Multi-partner initiative, launching in 2026 with founding support from the Bezos Earth Fund, that combines field sensors, environmental DNA and satellite data with AI to report on biodiversity and ecosystem condition across the Amazon.", "tags": [ "amazon", "biodiversity", "camera traps", "bioacoustics", "edna", "satellite" ], "kinds": [ "organization" ], "domains": [ "ecology" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/organizations/amazon-ia-amazon-ia/" }, { "id": "organizations/bioregional-financing-facilities-resiliance-discovery-arcs", "label": "ResiliAnce Partnership", "description": "Partnership of Commonland, Ashoka, The Weaving Lab and Wire Group, formed in March 2025 within the Bioregional Weaving Labs Collective, that is prototyping Bioregional Financing Facilities in three European bioregions and publishing discovery-arc papers on how such facilities should work.", "tags": [ "bioregion", "finance", "investment", "portfolio", "regenerative", "governance" ], "kinds": [ "organization" ], "domains": [ "people" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/organizations/bioregional-financing-facilities-resiliance-discovery-arcs/" }, { "id": "organizations/coastal-assembly", "label": "Coastal Assembly", "description": "Coastal Assembly, a public benefit company out of MIT's Self-Assembly Lab, models how sand moves along a shoreline from satellite, wave, current and seabed data, then places engineered reef structures so that waves rebuild the beach.", "tags": [ "coastal", "erosion", "beach", "reef", "maldives", "shoreline" ], "kinds": [ "organization" ], "domains": [ "water", "ecology" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/organizations/coastal-assembly/" }, { "id": "organizations/gloria", "label": "GLORIA", "description": "Long-term monitoring network that resurveys permanent plots on European mountain summits; its 21 years of data underpin a 2026 Science study reporting rising local extinctions of alpine plants.", "tags": [ "mountains", "plants", "biodiversity", "monitoring", "extinction", "warming" ], "kinds": [ "organization" ], "domains": [ "ecology", "climate" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/organizations/gloria/" }, { "id": "organizations", "label": "Organizations", "description": "Companies, agencies, labs, programmes and the sites they run.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "section" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": "list", "depiction": null, "status": "public", "updated": "", "url": "/organizations/" }, { "id": "organizations/localscale", "label": "LocalScale", "description": "Public benefit organization, based in San Francisco, that connects the communities of a bioregion with regenerative-economy actors and local governments, using blockchain-based tools, a playbook, a funding hub and a seed-exchange programme.", "tags": [ "bioregion", "local economy", "regenerative", "community", "blockchain" ], "kinds": [ "organization" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/organizations/localscale/" }, { "id": "organizations/open-agroecology-lab", "label": "Open Agroecology Laboratory", "description": "Argentine network of rural organizations, technicians and researchers, grown out of Cooperativa Ayllu, CEFIC and reGOSH in Mendoza, that builds open-hardware instruments and a soil-data web app so farmers can track soil health through agroecological transitions.", "tags": [ "agroecology", "soil health", "open hardware", "farmers", "argentina" ], "kinds": [ "organization" ], "domains": [ "food" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/organizations/open-agroecology-lab/" }, { "id": "organizations/swan-sovereign-wealth-and-nature", "label": "SWAN Platform (Sovereign Wealth and Nature)", "description": "Platform from Blue Green Future and Global Resilience Partners that helps governments count living nature as part of sovereign wealth; Tonga and Panama are its first partner countries.", "tags": [ "natural capital", "sovereign wealth", "nature finance", "valuation", "ocean" ], "kinds": [ "organization" ], "domains": [ "ecology", "water" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/organizations/swan-sovereign-wealth-and-nature/" }, { "id": "people", "label": "People", "description": "Practitioners and thinkers.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "section" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": "list", "depiction": null, "status": "public", "updated": "", "url": "/people/" }, { "id": "posts", "label": "Recent", "description": "New entries, newest first.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "section" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": "recent", "depiction": null, "status": "public", "updated": "", "url": "/posts/" }, { "id": "questions/after-a-closure", "label": "Traffic and public transport", "description": "Where will vehicles go after a closure, and can signal changes help a late bus?", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "question" ], "domains": [ "mobility" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/questions/after-a-closure/" }, { "id": "questions/combining-proposals", "label": "Public discussion and learning", "description": "What changes when we combine different climate policies or land-use proposals?", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "question" ], "domains": [ "people" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "proposed", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/questions/combining-proposals/" }, { "id": "questions/crowds-and-evacuation", "label": "Crowds and evacuation", "description": "How will people move through a station or leave an area during an emergency?", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "question" ], "domains": [ "people" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/questions/crowds-and-evacuation/" }, { "id": "questions/electrification", "label": "Electricity and energy transitions", "description": "Where will electrification require more network capacity, storage or generation?", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "question" ], "domains": [ "energy" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/questions/electrification/" }, { "id": "questions/flooding", "label": "Flooding, rivers and water services", "description": "Which areas will flood, and how will changes to rivers, drainage or pumps affect them?", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "question" ], "domains": [ "water" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "proposed", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/questions/flooding/" }, { "id": "questions/housing-and-land-use", "label": "Housing and land use", "description": "How might zoning or transport investment change development and household location?", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "question" ], "domains": [ "places" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/questions/housing-and-land-use/" }, { "id": "questions", "label": "Questions", "description": "The questions a model of a place can help answer.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "section" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": "list", "depiction": null, "status": "public", "updated": "", "url": "/questions/" }, { "id": "questions/land-use-change", "label": "Ecosystems and land management", "description": "How might land-use changes affect water, habitat, carbon or agricultural production?", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "question" ], "domains": [ "food" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "proposed", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/questions/land-use-change/" }, { "id": "questions/sensory-landscape", "label": "Sensory landscape", "description": "How do sound, light, smell and barriers affect people and other animals?", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "question" ], "domains": [ "sensory" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/questions/sensory-landscape/" }, { "id": "questions/weather-and-climate", "label": "Weather and climate", "description": "What conditions are likely next week, and how might a region's climate change over decades?", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "question" ], "domains": [ "climate" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/questions/weather-and-climate/" }, { "id": "questions/wildfire", "label": "Wildfire and exposure", "description": "Where might a fire spread, which assets are exposed, and where would mitigation help?", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "question" ], "domains": [ "fire" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/questions/wildfire/" }, { "id": "sites", "label": "Sites", "description": "Blogs, newsletters, communities and directories.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "section" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": "list", "depiction": null, "status": "public", "updated": "", "url": "/sites/" }, { "id": "stories/a-flooded-substation", "label": "A flooded substation", "description": "Water reaches one substation; water pumping and communications can go down with it.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "story" ], "domains": [ "water", "energy" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "proposed", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/stories/a-flooded-substation/" }, { "id": "stories/a-frog-chorus", "label": "A frog chorus", "description": "Aircraft noise changes how Pedregal frogs call and thins out their chorus.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "story" ], "domains": [ "sensory" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "proposed", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/stories/a-frog-chorus/" }, { "id": "stories/a-late-bus", "label": "A late bus", "description": "A live model of the roads spots a bus falling behind and helps staff change the signals ahead of it.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "story" ], "domains": [ "mobility" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "proposed", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/stories/a-late-bus/" }, { "id": "stories/computational-journalism-colorado-river-interactive", "label": "Who Drinks the River?", "description": "Scrolling story and playable water-allocation model of the Colorado River basin by Anselm Hook; readers set the flow, choose the cut rule and retire irrigation, then share the future they built as a link.", "tags": [ "colorado river", "water allocation", "interactive", "journalism", "scenario", "drought" ], "kinds": [ "story" ], "domains": [ "water", "places", "people" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/stories/computational-journalism-colorado-river-interactive/" }, { "id": "stories", "label": "Stories", "description": "Short true accounts of what a model let someone see.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "section" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": "list", "depiction": null, "status": "public", "updated": "", "url": "/stories/" }, { "id": "terms/biohabitats-nature-first-data-center-framework", "label": "Nature First: A Framework for Data Centers", "description": "Framework from the ecological design firm Biohabitats for asking, before a data center is designed, whether it belongs in a landscape at all, and how it relates to the watershed, habitat and community around it.", "tags": [ "data centers", "site selection", "ecology", "watershed", "land use", "planning" ], "kinds": [ "term" ], "domains": [ "ecology", "places", "water" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/terms/biohabitats-nature-first-data-center-framework/" }, { "id": "terms/bioregional-relationship-governance-johar-tjoelker-kay", "label": "Bioregional relationship governance", "description": "The idea that a bioregion should be organised around the relationships that sustain life in a place, such as a shared water system, rather than around a boundary drawn on a map; argued by Indy Johar and related to the rights-of-nature movement for rivers.", "tags": [ "bioregion", "governance", "watershed", "rights of nature", "interdependence" ], "kinds": [ "term" ], "domains": [ "people", "water", "ecology" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/terms/bioregional-relationship-governance-johar-tjoelker-kay/" }, { "id": "terms/civic-models-simulating-the-world-direction", "label": "Civic models", "description": "The aim of predictive models of land, water, law and policy that ordinary people can run, question and argue with, rather than tools reserved for planners, companies and agencies.", "tags": [ "simulation", "participation", "world model", "policy", "prediction", "public" ], "kinds": [ "term" ], "domains": [ "places", "people", "ecology" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/terms/civic-models-simulating-the-world-direction/" }, { "id": "terms/digital-twin", "label": "What is a digital twin?", "description": "A computational representation of a real object, place or system, linked to information about its real-world counterpart.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "term" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "proposed", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/terms/digital-twin/" }, { "id": "terms", "label": "Terminology", "description": "Words the field uses, and the ones we coin.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "section" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": "list", "depiction": null, "status": "public", "updated": "", "url": "/terms/" }, { "id": "terms/natural-general-intelligence-ngi", "label": "Natural General Intelligence", "description": "A proposal for a foundation model trained on observations of the Earth itself, estimating the planet's current state and simulating how it responds to intervention.", "tags": [ "earth system", "foundation model", "world model", "planetary", "observation" ], "kinds": [ "term" ], "domains": [ "climate", "ecology" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/terms/natural-general-intelligence-ngi/" }, { "id": "terms/regenerative-gdp-regdp", "label": "Regenerative GDP (ReGDP)", "description": "Blue Green Future's accounting framework that counts living ecosystems as productive infrastructure in GDP and on sovereign balance sheets.", "tags": [ "natural capital", "accounting", "gdp", "sovereign debt", "nature finance" ], "kinds": [ "term" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/terms/regenerative-gdp-regdp/" }, { "id": "terms/umbrella-species-stewardship-protocol-era", "label": "ERA Biodiversity Crediting Protocol for Umbrella Species Stewardship", "description": "A biodiversity-credit protocol from Ecosystem Regeneration Associates (ERA) in Brazil that pays landholders for keeping an umbrella species and its habitat in good condition, checked by monitoring and external audit.", "tags": [ "biodiversity credits", "umbrella species", "jaguar", "pantanal", "brazil", "stewardship" ], "kinds": [ "term" ], "domains": [ "ecology" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/terms/umbrella-species-stewardship-protocol-era/" }, { "id": "terms/verifiable-nature-units-vnus", "label": "Verifiable Nature Units (VNUs)", "description": "African Parks' unit of conservation performance, one square kilometre in which ecological integrity has been kept or improved over a year, used as the basis for outcomes-based funding.", "tags": [ "conservation finance", "outcomes", "protected areas", "africa", "ecological integrity" ], "kinds": [ "term" ], "domains": [ "ecology" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/terms/verifiable-nature-units-vnus/" }, { "id": "terms/world-system-science-wss", "label": "World System Science", "description": "A proposed social-science counterpart to Earth System Science, set out in The Anthropocene Crisis (Cambridge University Press), edited by Mathias Albert and Barry Buzan.", "tags": [ "social science", "earth system", "anthropocene", "tipping points", "multispecies justice" ], "kinds": [ "term" ], "domains": [ "people", "climate", "ecology" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/terms/world-system-science-wss/" }, { "id": "twins/bay-layers", "label": "Bay Layers", "description": "A layered portrait of San Francisco Bay that explains a digital twin as four shared geographic layers: earth and seabed, natural forces, living systems and the built world.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "twin" ], "domains": [ "places", "water", "ecology" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": "/twins/bay-layers/poster.jpg", "status": "proposed", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/twins/bay-layers/" }, { "id": "twins/boundlessnyc", "label": "Valdrada", "description": "Mehmet Kerem Turkcan's city-scale digital twin of New York City's five boroughs, compiled from public municipal records, with real-time rendering, traffic and pedestrian simulation and a CARLA-style Python API.", "tags": [ "new york", "city", "simulation", "traffic", "synthetic data", "open source" ], "kinds": [ "twin" ], "domains": [ "places", "mobility", "sensory" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-10-17", "url": "/twins/boundlessnyc/" }, { "id": "twins/helsinki-bologna", "label": "Helsinki / Bologna", "description": "Helsinki publishes city-model data and an energy atlas; Bologna is developing civic twin infrastructure.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "twin" ], "domains": [ "places", "energy" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "proposed", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/twins/helsinki-bologna/" }, { "id": "twins", "label": "Digital twins", "description": "Real projects by real people: models of actual places and systems, and whether they run.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "section" ], "domains": [], "pinned": false, "view": "list", "depiction": null, "status": "public", "updated": "", "url": "/twins/" }, { "id": "twins/virtual-singapore", "label": "Dassault / Virtual Singapore", "description": "A shared 3D city representation with associated data and simulation applications.", "tags": [], "kinds": [ "twin" ], "domains": [ "places" ], "pinned": false, "view": null, "depiction": null, "status": "draft", "updated": "2026-09", "url": "/twins/virtual-singapore/" } ]