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Home Planet at Your Fingertips

Develop a user-friendly application or tool to discover, visualize, and analyze NASA Earth data for monitoring our home planet.

MapIT

Summary

We planned to retrieve data from multiple sources and bring them under one roof so that all relevant information is readily available to the user. We need to spend time searching for the required data. We aim to accept the required parameters from the user and return the relevant data, thus saving the user time and effort and enhancing the purpose. We split the entire amount of datasets into 3 categories :Data points :Data where markings are used to denote them, (e.g) forest fires.Images captured of events:Implemented an easy visualization page for the MODIS_Terra_ Cloud_Reflectance data.Layers:Data involving spread and intensity of measurements, (e.g) monoxide levels, humidity.

How We Addressed This Challenge

We developed an interactive website that encompasses data from different NASA databases and visualises it in an user-friendly manner making it easier to derive insights from. We hope to make more people familiar to the varied and enormous amounts of data available at NASA with attractive visuals.

How We Developed This Project

The available NASA websites are too complicated and not fast enough making it difficult for laymen to use them. So, we decided to make our own tool for this purpose. Our approach was

  1. Data Collection
  2. Data Analysis
  3. Data Visualization

Tools Used

  • GIBS API (Web Mercator)
  • LANCE NRT Data
  • Google Maps API

Coding Languages

  • HTML, CSS
  • JavaScript
  • Python

Software

  • Github Pages
  • VS Code

Problems

  • Scraping data from LANCE NRT
  • Adding multiple layers to the maps

Achievements

  • Successfully implementing all suggestions by the mentor on first review
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

Sources:

  1. FIRMS DATA
  1. epsg4326 MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor
  2. epsg3857 MODIS_Terra_Aerosol
  3. epsg3857 MODIS_Aqua_Aerosol
Project Demo
Project Code
Data & Resources
  1. FIRMS DATA
  1. epsg4326 MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor
  2. epsg3857 MODIS_Terra_Aerosol
  3. epsg3857 MODIS_Aqua_Aerosol
Tags
#visualization #data #MODIS #maps #GIBS #Garlic_Bread #NASA_Maps #NRT_Data
Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.