Technical Space Chimps| Spot That Fire V3.0
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Spot That Fire V3.0
Global Fire Detect
Summary
Our project basically consists of an application that allows helping different people, as firefighters, owners of large areas of land, or ordinary people, it can to prevent and extinguish any forest fire and it ley us know in advance in which places around the world are more likely to suffer a fire. It also provides information for people, to know how to prevent fires and how to act before one, as well as not to spread it faster. The application consists of a map of the world that shows which areas are more or less humid, where there is a fire at the moment, and how much it can spread depending on where it is.
How We Addressed This Challenge
We try to help as much people as possible with our project. For this we developed an application that allows us to see which areas of the world where a fire is most likely to occur, in which areas it is occurring, and at the same time provides information on how to prevent forest fires and how to act against. This is very important due to the large number of dry areas in the world and the large number of large scale forest fires that occurred recently. This application works like a map, that marks in which areas there is more or less moisture in the soil and in which areas there is a fire.With this application we hope to achive greater prevention of forest fires, a greater awareness in people about the risk of these fires, and that firefighters, among others, can extinguish the fire as quickly as possible if it occurs.
How We Developed This Project
The team was inspired by the big fires that are happening in our country and in the world. Our focus with this project is to help firefighters to prevent fires and alert them about hot spots or areas most likely to catch fire. This application is not only for firefighters, but people in affected areas can also report and be informed about the situation in that area.
The application's programming and editing tool was Android Studio.
The Team have a great performance, there were some issues regarding editing, but the team was able to move forward. The achievements we had was the good performance of the team, in the distribution of tasks itself, since we were distributing the project and we arrived at the end of the day to do a pooling and polish everything to concentrate on the programming of the application. Another achievement is learning how to program and edit applications in Android Studio, a tool with which we were not familiar and yet we were able to achieve the goal and idea that we had.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
Our project uses various sources of information, for the operation and development of this, it would use data from the MODIS Sensor (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) for the detection of fires in a certain area. Other sensors that we would use will be the SMAP (Soil Moisture Active/Passive), that indicate soil moisture. This is because the application will be in charge of notifying and showing areas where a fire may occur, due to droughts. all the data collected by the sensors will be stored in a database to know the areas prone to fire and the areas that suffer from lack of humidity.