Geoinformatics and open solutions for environmental sustainability

Sustainable Open Solutions (SustainableOS) supports sustainable development, environmental and climate change adaptation initiatives internationally, including research, project management, data analysis, and development of geospatial open source decision support systems.

Service areas include:

• Technical expertise and project management for sustainable development and climate change adaptation initiatives, including those pertaining to forests, mangroves, the marine and coastal environment, infrastructure and urban environment, water resources management, floods and droughts, agriculture, aquaculture, and fisheries.

• Geospatial data analysis and visualisation (see upcoming release of book)

• Climate data analysis and visualisation

• Development of geospatial web-based decision support systems

• Development of training modules and capacity building

• Technology and capacity needs assessment and gap analysis

Data services and products exclusively leverage open source software, including:

• Geospatial data analysis and visualisation conducted with R/RStudio and QGIS

• Online geospatial data sharing with GeoServer

• PostgreSQL for database development

• R Shiny for decision support frontend development

• Server administration with Docker containerization and Ubuntu operating system