CMD (Camino de la Miranda Developer) - Space Apps Challenge

CMD (Camino de la Miranda Developer)| Mission to Planet Earth: A Digital History

Awards & Nominations

CMD (Camino de la Miranda Developer) has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!

Global Nominee

Mission to Planet Earth: A Digital History

NASA’s activities in space have brought new knowledge of the Earth, inspiring new ways of thinking about humanity and the planet. However, many people aren’t aware that NASA studies the Earth in addition to other planets. Your challenge is to tell stories of NASA’s Earth science enterprise using interactive digital tools. This will test your technical skills and your ability to think like a historian or educator.

Nasa Against Fire

Summary

We have created a website that conveys the message of the importance that NASA plays on the study of wildfires on Earth. We have focused our main attention, from a historic poing of view, on the last five problematic fires in the few last years.

How We Addressed This Challenge

We have chosen wildfires as our main theme because of its global impact on planet Earth, and also becase it is not well know that NASA also looks into the study of wild fires through the techology of imaging satellites. We always assume that NASA is more focus towards space and the great beyond rather than look toward our big blue planet.

How We Developed This Project

Our biggest challenge has been creating a website that shows the colossal damage that wildfires imprint on the the earth, even though most of them could be avoided by using the great advances of technology, we also want to show the impact of the damage and the repercusions that fires leave behind by comparing the before and after pictures taken from NASA's satellites.

We created the website from scratch using HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. We used Visual Studio Code for the web development and GIMP and Inkscape to create and touch up images.

Even though it was a complicated task to tackle in two days, we have worked as nice cohesive team. The communication has been excelent with the use of online applications such as Discord to arrange how we could solve the challenge.

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

We have used satellite imagery from the Landsat Image Gallery to show the before and after of the destruction of wildfires.

Judging

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