What Is Our Carbon Footprint?
Carbon footprint
Summary
This project aims to explore the carbon footprint of the heavily industrialized local zone; Aliaga in order to detect the deteriation of the climate, the increase of the average annual heat and thus a decrease of rainfall causing local agricultural products to be poisoned. Moreover, this project aims to reveal the increased cancer cases due to air pollution. the main purpose however is to identify and compare the effects of iron and steel plant companies on the environment and how the pollution rates and the carbon emissions have changed.
How We Addressed This Challenge
In this project we developed a desktop software by visualizing it in a user friendly way about the main aims to raise awareness for citizens, local people and to get the attention of the politicians.
It works by using the data from Nasa sources via the internet.
How We Developed This Project
We chose this challenge because we are affected negatively by the heavy industrial zone because of air pollution.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
İn order to analyze the data, we used the Mat Lab and as a result of our collaboration with the mentors, we downloaded the data from the Japan data source in XML format and exported it by the aid of Python programming language and finally used the pyqt5 and pyqtGrapgh libraries to visualize and to design a user friendly interface. Also, to raise awareness we have also created a mobile application by app inventor
Project Demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG1cz7ZMn1w&feature=youtu.be
Project Code
Data & Resources
JAXA