DataScienceEarth| 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?

Estimating CO2 Emissions on the Country Level

Summary

Report: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QVxMKmwER56KR4eSxw0T7j2qJjDyEUxd1eHVHh69SZo/editAll other materials&data: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1cPFZf9YbYCq2lfLv3hXA6gAzPo2rJp5X

How We Addressed This Challenge

We developed an estimation model to predict countrywise CO2 emissions. It takes GDP, trade as a percentage of GDP, population and rural population as a percentage of total population as inputs and estimates CO2 emissions. With the help of this, we wanted to show how these factors affect our carbon footprint .

How We Developed This Project

This issue being one of the serious problems in the world has inspired us. As a team, we were curious about this and we wanted to observe it. It was also our first competition as a team that we quickly coordinated and tried to develop our project. We analyzed it by looking at its worldwide distribution to develop the project. The tools we use are Jupyter Notebook, Python, Google Drive and Tableu. Our team has made a new start with this competition. We believe this will give us more inspiration and energy.

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

We wanted to use NASA OCO2 Level 2 observation data, however, it was highly scientific and h5 file format is a format we have never worked with. We were unable to parse it into arrays. So we had to go with other open source data.

Project Demo

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15HoDX9r2r9alhSMGWQcLVLmJn9XTX_VX/view?usp=sharing

Project Code
Data & Resources

References are at the last page of the report: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QVxMKmwER56KR4eSxw0T7j2qJjDyEUxd1eHVHh69SZo/edit

Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.