NASA strugglers | Mission to Planet Earth: A Digital History
Mission to Planet Earth: A Digital History
Earth Science Facilitator
Summary
Flutter application is developed to illustrate NASA's Earth Science division history for all the people who are interested in Space data around the world. The application covers Nasa's earth science divisions, missions, and collaborations. It is developed for Normal, Deaf, and Blind people. Besides, the content is provided in both languages English and Arabic. The content is designed to be easy to be understood as it illustrated with simple words with videos and attractive videos for Normal and Deaf people. On the other hand, simple and attractive audio records are developed for blind people. The application is effective, and easy to be used.
How We Addressed This Challenge
Most of the people aren’t aware of NASA’s message to our planet earth, where our challenge comes, we have to provide all the people who are interested in the topic with a digital tool that facilitates NASA Earth Science history. That’s we have done, and more! We have developed a flutter application, which make it available for Android and IOS, that works on illustrating the history of NASA Earth Science including the Overview, Earth Science Element Divisions, Missions, and NASA Collaborations. Besides, there are a lot of videos that illustrate some missions and topics in easy way. The application covers all the information that any one interested in knowing more about NASA Earth Science. But unfortunately, there are people who are Deaf and Blind as it will be hard for them to work with the application. That’s what make our application unique, besides all of our futures, we provide sections for Blind, Normal, and Deaf people. As the Blind people will be able to hear a set of records for each topic which is illustrated in a good and easy way. The application is important, as it addresses the challenge, for all people who are interested in NASA Earth Science as it facilitates understanding the History of NASA ESD, and NASA Collaborations and missions in simple way using simple words, records, and videos in both languages of English and Arabic. Achieving the most affordable number of audiences is what we work on through our project solving the challenge as we worked on translating the application in English and Arabic, also it is provided for Normal, Deaf, and Blind people
How We Developed This Project
Working in something that you like is one of the main reasons of being successful, that’s why we have chosen this challenge. We are a collaborative team, works on completing each other but there’s something that’s common between all of us, our love for space science, and collecting data about it. On the other hand, some of us are talented in application development which encouraged us more to apply for this challenge. The mean of searching and collecting data, and finding a suitable way for telling all of these data to solve the problem in a wide range.
Developing our application “Earth Science Facilitator” was for solving our challenge by declaring NASA’s mission to the earth. Where there is a lot of people who are un aware of NASA earth science division and its data, so we developed the application to illustrate the term of earth science, main divisions, missions, and NASA collaborations with other organizations. The data are provided for Deaf and blind people, as there is a section for each set of people. For Normal and Deaf people, the content is provided with small, organized, and easy paragraphs with videos with subtitles. For blind people, the content is provided in records. Through this we were able to reach a wider and seeker ranges.
The application is developed by Flutter as a platform with the coding language of DART on Android Studio as IDE. We have chosen flutter because it provides smooth and high-quality applications for both android and IOS devices, which is something that make it unique. The application is developed with 108 pagesand more than 2500 lines of code.
The main problems that we have Faced, is that the amount of data we dealt with are great, where it was hard for us to handle the files, abbreviations, videos, and coding section. Besides, that we had a problem with the time as it was a small time for us to build an application with 108 pages in 3 days only! On the other hand, we have a great achievement as I have mentioned, that we are a collaborative team, we have worked on managing our time and tasks to overcome the problems till we come up with a great achievement which is the application before the time.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
Space agency was an essential factor for making our project, where we have used its resources NASA, JAXA and CSS to get information needed for making digital history about NASA’s Earth Science. We used space agency to extract Earth Science Division Elements, NASA Earth Science Missions, NASA Collaborations. All these sources have been used to narrate the history of NASA in Earth Science for blind and deaf people by getting this information, summarizing, translating and regularizing them in our application.
First, we have used Earth science division elements to know about:
1- Flight
2- Research and Analysis
3- Applied Sciences
4- NASA collaboration
Second, we have used missions like:
1- The TERRIERS Satellite
2- The Television Infrared Observation Satellite Program (TIROS)
3- The Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer Earth Probe Satellite (TOMS/EP)
4- Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer
5- The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)
6- Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS)
7- ACT-America
8- Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS)
9- Airborne Microwave Observatory of Sub canopy and Subsurface
10- Aqua Earth-observing satellite mission
11- Atlas Program
Finally, we have used NASA’s collaboration and partnerships it used to do and how it affects in improving the development of both NASA and companies collaborated with.