Pihm is a physical model of land surface and groundwater, closely coupled to GIS interface. Pihmgis is open source, platform independent and extensible. Through the development of shared data model and hydrological model data structure, the close coupling between GIS and model is realized.

Cxtfit is a computer software developed by the saline soil laboratory of the United States to study one-dimensional soil solute transport. Based on Levenberg Marquardt algorithm, cxtfit uses the function optimization method of nonlinear least square to fit the breakthrough curve of solute mixture replacement experiment, solves the model parameters, and predicts the concentration distribution of solute in soil with time and space. Cxtfit is based on the solute convection dispersion equation. The original cxtfit1.0 was developed and compiled by Parker and van Genuchten, and gradually improved into today's cxtfit2.0, which contains more equation analysis for different initial boundary value problems and generation problems. The software includes three different types of solute transport models: equilibrium CDE model, physicochemical nonequilibrium CDE model and stochastic flow tube model.

Biosphere 3D is an open source project aimed at interactive landscape rendering based on Virtual Earth. The software system supports multiple scales, but it is mainly used to create realistic views from the line of sight level or near ground level. The software is released under the license of MPL and developed by lennal 3D for personal computers. Biosphere 3D was first released in 2007 by the visualization and data analysis department of the Zuse Institute in Berlin. Applications include landscape planning, landscape architecture, visual impact assessment, such as wind farms, power stations, land-use planning, archaeology, urban planning and forestry, enabling them to roam through landscape scenes or nearly reconstructed historical landscapes and gardens. Biosphere 3D, originally funded by the Federal Ministry of education and Research (Germany), was designed as a pure landscape visualization system in the "silvisio" of the R & D project.

The vegetation model SSiB was developed in the late 1980s. It is based on the SIB proposed by sellers et al. In 1986. The simplification is mainly aimed at the calculation of radiation transfer, aerodynamic drag coefficient and stomatal resistance coefficient in plants. The simplified SSiB has 1 layer of vegetation, 3 layers of soil and 8 forecast variables (moisture of 3 layers of soil, water content of vegetation surface, snow cover of soil surface and leaf surface temperature). Therefore, there are only two predictors: soil surface temperature and deep soil temperature. In the model, stomatal resistance coefficient, soil resistance coefficient, vegetation boundary layer resistance coefficient and two-layer aerodynamic resistance coefficient are used to control the dynamic, thermal and water exchange between the earth and the atmosphere.

Anuga hydrodynamic modeling tool can build complex 2D hydrodynamic model. For example, simulate the fracture of a dam or the impact of natural disasters such as storms and tsunamis. A research area must be designated as a triangular unit, if applicable, to determine topography and bathymetric measurements, friction, initial water level values (Anuga referred to as the first stage), boundary conditions and forces such as rainfall, river flow, wind stress and pressure gradient networks. Anuga simulated the evolution of water depth and horizontal momentum with time in each element by solving the shallow water wave equation and using the finite volume method.