Home Planet at Your Fingertips
Remote Monitoring and Management Tool
Summary
In the present era, we are observing there are many tools available for data collection and filtering where we are completely unaware of such tools and don't know have certain permissions to access it and also to monitor about certain parameters along with analyzer to filter out and give the perfect visualization on a daily basis and have data at our fingertips. So our project develops a tool or application to allow users to discover and potentially visualize NASA Earth datasets that can help users monitor our home planet and improve their daily lives.
How We Addressed This Challenge
Our project develops a tool or application to allow users to discover and potentially visualize NASA Earth datasets that can help users monitor our home planet and improve their daily lives. A key component of the app is to help users find the Earth science data relevant to their needs. This include a recommendation system that asks users questions and suggests relevant NASA Earth datasets, or a directory that makes user-friendly versions of the data easier to find. For example, a user interested in monitoring rainfall conditions in their area would be directed to NASA global precipitation datasets such as IMERG (the Integrated Multi-satellite Retrievals for GPM (Global Precipitation Measurement)), etc.
We here hope to achieve that it would become easy and convenient tool for researchers and scientist to have data and visualization all on one platform and made it user-friendly.
If we get the opportunity to develop this further we can develop it more accurately and user-friendly.
How We Developed This Project
In the current pandemic situation, we are observing incidents like Wildfires across the west coast and in many parts of the world where we are completely unaware of the situation and what could have been the reason for such calamity but we can monitor them on a daily basis and have data at our fingertips.
Since we started planning our service by clearing out what is the main reason for the complexity for the most of tool which exists but very few people know about it. And earlier we simply started coding this tool in JavaScript and bootstrap for designing the tool and certain JavaScript libraries on the go.
The main problems we encountered across the project timeline is getting the API Key and the time it took to get connected to our project which pushed us back in completely way after our planned deadlines. Other than that all the work completed very smoothly.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
Using EOSDIS (NASA's Earth's Observing System Data and Information System):
A number of ways for viewing imagery and creating visualizations and analyzation of data, whether you are interested in natural disasters, land surfaces, water resources, or our oceans. Provides access to near real-time imagery from some of NASA’s Earth observation missions, allowing for near-real time response to natural and man-made events.
Providing measurements of Earth’s atmosphere, ocean, land, cryosphere, and how humans interact with the environment, as well as calibrated radiance and solar radiance data. These measurements help user to better understand climate change, severe weather, sea ice and glaciers, hazards and disasters, health and air quality, ecology, and water resources.
Project Demo
Data & Resources
Providing measurements of Earth’s atmosphere, ocean, land, cryosphere, and how humans interact with the environment, as well as calibrated radiance and solar radiance data. These measurements help user to better understand climate change, severe weather, sea ice and glaciers, hazards and disasters, health and air quality, ecology, and water resources.