Los Aesir| Spot That Fire V3.0
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Spot That Fire V3.0
Despite the fire
Summary
Our project is a web software that will help visualize scientific and social data regarding the factors that could cause a forest fire, as well as its consequences all around the world on a simple and interactive way, making it easier and reachable for anyone to find and understand. It also shows help organizations which communities could call in case of need, and contingency plans if a forest fire arises.
How We Addressed This Challenge
"Despite the Fire" is a free access software which adresses the challenge making data, about forest fires, more accessible and friendlier to the general public, while offering a conciser way to observe and analyze data for governments and civil organizations in order to obtain an efficient manner to make and apply decisions in vulnerable areas. The software shows possible (and preventable) natural and human causes of wildfires; economical, health and ecological impacts by calculating the wildfire's range; and contigency as well as recuperation plans according to the affected zone.This software could be the key to a more efficient management of wildfires and every consequence that comes with them.
How We Developed This Project
Since wildfires are a major threat to ecosystems and communities' economy and health, it was our moral and civil duty to act for the sake of the welfare of society by developing a software that could help to prevent and act when these disasters take place. The team aimed to include every area of what a wildfire could mean to a community, being this the reason why we approached the economical, health, social and ecological sides of an event like this, while offering data of how to prevent a wildfire and to detect vulnerable areas, as well as contigency and recuperation plans.
The Aesir team worked integrating Html, CSS, and Javascript to innovate an already existing version of WorldWind to create our project "Despite the Fire".
On other hand, it is important to highlight the fact that none of the teammembers knew how any of these coding languages worked, leading us to investigate the languages and invest time learning how to code rather than in how to develop our idea in the web code, which was the major opportunity area we faced. However, we at least had enough time to make a brainstorm and determine every aspect of the project we wanted to include.
Certainly, this was an odd way to develop a project since we did not know everything about how to code it; nevertheless, we were able to work with it and come to a non-completely functional but worthy prototype.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
The open source software WorldWind for web was used for the development of this project. In fact, WorldWind became the center of Despite The Fire, providing our team with a globe which we could use to locate different areas and its ecosystem characteristics, in order to determine the most vulnerable geographical zones to wildfires. Aditionally, we found important wildfire, social-related information in the government page of a latinamerican country, which helped us develop the impact area of our project.
Project Demo
https://www.canva.com/design/DAEJo87SFxE/N-RXkLDb52NUG2cw8w3T1w/view?utm_content=DAEJo87SFxE&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=sharebutton