Software

EcoViewer is an open-access environmental reference platform that combines global biodiversity and environmental data to help understand any ecosystem on Earth.

Access EcoViewer here.

Remap is a free, online mapping platform for people with little technical background in remote sensing. Funded by Google in 2017, we developed Remap to enable you to quickly map and report the status of ecosystems. 

Access Remap here. 

Read the MEE paper here.

The Global Ecosystems Atlas is the first comprehensive open resource on the extent and distributions of all the world’s ecosystems.

Explore the GEA Ecosystems Synthesis Map here, and the Ecosystems Data Catalogue here.

Find the GEA GitHub Repository containing all major units of work to support Atlas production here.

Led by Professor David Keith, the IUCN Global Ecosystem Typology was developed to create a comprehensive and consistent framework that supports efforts for assessing and managing the world’s ecosystems and their services. 

Explore the Global Ecosystems Typology website here.

Read the typology paper here.

Read about the ecosystem functional group MT1.2 Muddy shorelines co-authored by Nick Murray here. 

Since 2014, we have contributed to the global effort to assess the status of Earth's ecosystems. 

Visit the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems website here. 

Download the guidelines for assessment here.

View some of our key papers here, here and here. 

To support the Threatened Ecosystems of Myanmar project, a national scale Red List of Ecosystems assessment, we developed classification of Landsat and Sentinel data to map the Biomes, Realms, and Ecosystems of Myanmar. 

Read the paper here, for more information visit here.

Access the data here. 

Redlistr is an R package developed to support assessments of species and ecosystems against the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems categories and criteria. 

Access the package here.

Read the Ecography paper here. 

Earthtones is an R package that downloads a satellite image for a place on earth, translates the image into a perceptually uniform color space, and returns a color palette for use in figures. Developed with a simple idea over lunch at UNSW with Will Cornwell and Mitch Lyons. 

Earthtones is available here.