Open Standards
Our technology relies on numerous open standards, but there is room for improvement. We have released some of our internal standards as open standards so that you can benefit from them.
Free Software
Ecosophy both relies on and supports free and open source software. To give back to the community, we pledge to release as many of our internal libraries and utilities under open licenses as possible.
Open Data
A number of the data sets that Ecosophy provides are publicly available due to commitments to openness from international scientific organizations, governments and universities.
Open Science
We are a planetary sciences company. We could not exist without the amazing scientists who have done fantastic work before we came along.
Resources
Ecosophy on Github
Some of our open source components are available on Github. Feel free to check them out, use them in your projects, or contribute to our mission.
The BUnits Specification
Internally we use a 32 bit binary-packed format for representing units in the SI system. It covers the majority of potential unit combinations that are found in the wild.
The BTS File Format
One of our internal file formats, the Binary Time Series format, is available as an open standard.
Digital transmission of time-series data, for instance for meteorological, climatological or financial purposes, tends to be done either through simple but inefficient plain text formats such as CSV or JSON, or through advanced but complicated binary formats such as NetCDF, GRIB or Parquet. Our format, BTS, is intended to bridge the gap between these two extremes, by providing an easy-to-parse, compact, self-describing binary format.
Our data source reference list
We rely heavily on open data. Check out our public reference list of data sets.