Stories from the ground from Commons Connect usage
Can data-driven planning lead to a participatory and accountable approach to natural resource governance? Reflections from Ajmal, SUPPORT (Jharkhand) Hear…
ecological restoration toolkit: Bioacoustics Analysis pipelines
Connected to our work on continuous ecological monitoring, we set up bioacoustics recorders at four sites in Delhi to continuously…
Ecological Restoration Toolkit: Identifying prospective sites for restoration
Restoration sites are typically identified using expert-defined rules on land use, elevation, rainfall, etc., or through change detection from historical…
Early Lessons from Commons Connect Pilots
Published: July 2025 How can digital tools strengthen local planning and ensure that the voices of rural communities shape their…
Revealing Inequities in MGNREGA: What Data and Field Insights Tell Us
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), enacted in 2005, was designed as a powerful tool to ensure…
CoRE Stack: Updates – September 2024 to April 2025
In a world where climate change and environmental degradation are becoming increasingly urgent, digital technologies are stepping up to provide…
Explore Social-Ecological Insights with the Know Your Landscape Dashboard
We’re excited to introduce the updated Know Your Landscape (KYL) dashboard! This powerful tool helps you dive deep into the…
Scalable Monitoring of Tree Canopy Density and Height in India at High Spatial Resolutions
Forests and plantations are the backbone of our planet’s ecological balance, offering habitats, absorbing carbon dioxide, regulating climate, and sustaining…
Assessing the impact of farm ponds on agricultural productivity in Northern India
Assessing the impact of farm ponds on agricultural productivity in Northern India Introduction Government welfare schemes such as the Mahatma…
Initial Experiments with a Scalable Machine Learning Based Approach for Downscaling the MOD16A2 Evapotranspiration Product
Objective Over the years, the amount of cropping and by extension the water used for cropping has intensified greatly. The…
Notes from the CoRE stack Research to Impact Collaborative held on July 8th 2024
ACM COMPASS is an international conference focused on the application of computing technologies for sustainability. COMPASS 2024 was held in…
Understanding water flow for river rejuvenation
To accompany the CoRE stack innovation challenge, we have enhanced the starter-kit with an example of combining data from the…
A micro-watershed registry for India
Climate scientists recognized a while back about the importance of coming up with a standardized Earth System grid. Today most…
Towards data-driven and community-centered water governance
Participatory planning procedures are a cornerstone of rural development initiatives, particularly those related to natural resource management. By centering voices…
CoRE stack starter-kit for geospatial programming
To accompany the innovation challenge (main doc with example problems), we have built a starter-kit that shows how you can…
The CoRE stack data structure
To accompany the innovation challenge (main doc with example problems), this ER diagram helpfully generated by Claude.ai (see chat) will…
CoRE Stack Innovation Challenge on geospatial programming – 1st edition
Update: We will keep updating this table with weekly developer community call recordings and relevant posts. Suggested order to view…
Building Reproducible Geospatial Pipelines: A STAC Extension with DAG’s
Making Sense of Geospatial Data Workflows: Introducing STACD Working with geospatial data is like cooking a complex meal with many…
RNE workshop: Digital Tools for Restoration
Update, Nov 19, 2025: As a follow-up from the workshop, we have put together this living database of useful tools…