Carbon Detectors

Carbon Detectors | What Is Our Carbon Footprint?

What Is Our Carbon Footprint?

Your challenge is to identify local sources of carbon emissions and/or estimate amounts of carbon emissions for different human activities to aid scientists in mapping carbon sources and sinks. How can you inform decisions to adapt to the consequences of a changing world and aid policy makers in making plans for the future?

Summary

Our project’s main target is to spread knowledge about Carbon or greenhouse gases among people of different ages. We have already used a lot of NASA’s maps and JAXA’s data to view the amounts of carbon in different places and countries. And also, in viewing the percentage of many activities in emitting these gases. Based on this information, we made animated videos for all ages specifically children to develop their knowledge about this topic. In addition, we have written articles about GHGs that are more detailed than videos to make our product rich with information. Finally, we collected NASA’s and JAXA’s data with our animated videos and articles in an android application and web site.

How We Addressed This Challenge

We have identified the sources of GHGs and their impacts on the local community and globally by making animated videos and articles that talked about a lot of GHGs like CO2, methane gas, hydrofluorocarbons, and chlorofluorocarbons. We quantified some of these gases at some of the great countries with identifying their resources. About the direct quantifying we used NASA, JAXA, ESA, to provide us with their interactive and highly detailed satellite observed maps.

How We Developed This Project

Our goal is to familiarize people in all ages easily with carbon, its sources, and how it is emitted by different ways. In order to develop our project and make it more effective and useful, we created an Android application that can be available on all phones and facilitate access to data faster and easier and suitable for all ages, especially children. We made animation videos to present many important information about greenhouse gases (GHGs), there causes and effects, and solutions for their problems in a simple and entertaining way. We used NASA’s maps that are observed by satellites to present all about the quantities of carbon footprint and its emissions in different ways. In addition, we wrote an article about GHGs and how to reduce their emissions through some of the daily life activities.

There is an additional idea that makes the project more useful for children but due to the lack of time, we couldn’t implement it. So, we recommend making a purposeful game for kids that benefits them with information about carbon and in entertaining way at the same time to provide information to them.

website:

https://carbondetectors.wixsite.com/carbondetectors

App: https://r1ralcvlw.appstylo.com

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

We used these space agencies (NASA, JAXA, ESA, etc.…) to quantifying the carbon footprints in different countries with the percentages of the activities that affect the GHGs emissions generally. And some of them focused on methane gas, Carbon dioxide gas, and few other greenhouse gases. We had to use these resources as it was because most of them were interactive maps that contained highly detailed information that’s been observed from satellites in the space or in the atmospheric layer. For example; OCO-2 and OCO-3.