iLu Earth| Home Planet at Your Fingertips
Awards & Nominations
iLu Earth has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!
Home Planet at Your Fingertips
Rainfall detection and monitoring
Summary
Easiest way to detect and monitor rainfall in any part of the world.
How We Addressed This Challenge
Just enter location, city or address and see the rainfall prediction in an easy human readable format; on a web interface.
Current weather solutions display lots of data and are filled with complexities. If a person just wants to monitor rainfall, she should be able to do just that. That's where our solution comes. A simple interface with the only information you want.
We hope that people with no technical knowledge can easily get insights from satellite data.
How We Developed This Project
Our team is motivated to create solutions that can easily be used by people across domains. Instead of searching throughout the webpage to find a single piece of data, we believe, people should be able to get insight that they are looking for, in an easy to understandable format.
Some of the flowcharts produced during the Hackathon:
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
Initially, we planned to get data from NASA and apply algorithms to predict & monitor rainfall. Due to time constraint, we moved to OpenWeatherMap API to produce our solution. We used this API to get 5 day / 3 hour forecast and implemented on our webpage so that people can easily read it in a sentence. To search for places around the world and display map element, we used Google Places API. For website development, we used Bubble app.
Project Demo
Our project is live at - https://iluearth.co/
Presentation : https://drive.google.com/file/d/13SaHKD6Kv9zUBvQIP1SJ-1vOIH-7s9mQ/view?usp=sharing
Data & Resources
- Weather API - https://openweathermap.org
- Map display and design - Google Maps API
- Geographical places search - Google Maps API
- Rainfall and precipitation data - OpenWeatherMap
- Website development - Bubble App