Little Place| 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?

Carbon Spotters

Summary

Spotting, Quantifying and Reporting CO2 Emitters Structures anywhere on Earth.

How We Addressed This Challenge

The project aims to identify and spot CO2 emitting fixed ground structures such as factories/power plants/ oil & gas refineries. Using publicly available global power plants data, the aim was to train the Machine Learning algorithm to identify every CO2 emitting structure and then using modelling estimate the related CO2 emissions.

How We Developed This Project

After forming a global team spread out in 4 countries and three continents, Little Place team worked on the problem to (1) understand the availability and limitations of the geospatial data (2) Understand the complexity and relationship of environmental factors (3) Work on an MVP to prove the viability of data (4) Draw a theoretical roadmap on the progress that can be made in this field to address the problem. 

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

Little Place Team primarily used the satellite data available from OCO2 Orbitor and TROPOMI and attempted to draw a heat map of CO2 across the earth. 

Project Demo

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1J6Inxna5avHM6jChxIi5p-f9ee2lOebiyHZx6uxRanQ/

Data & Resources
  • OCO2 Data
  • TROPOMI Observations
Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.