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e-Harvest
Summary
It is a web application that collects information on different scenarios of the world harvest and presents them in a simple and friendly way to inform them of the current situation and possible future harvest that directly impact the food of the world to inspire them to act in favor of the planet and contribute to the second goal of the UN and end world famine.
How We Addressed This Challenge
Inequality is a very serious global problem that affects us all, so inspired by the objectives of the UN we decided to address the objective number 2 "Zero hunger" because world hunger has always been a very necessary problem to address and Since 2015 due to climate change and economic recessions, the number of people suffering from hunger in our world has reached an approximate number of 690 million, which is between 8 and 9 percent of the world's population and has continued to increase even more in recent months due to the covid-19 virus that caused global havoc.
For these reasons we decided to develop a web application that obtains relevant information on the subject from reliable sources such as NASA, JAXA, CSA, among others, information such as SRES (Special Report on Emissions Scenarios) on world harvest and present them in a an orderly and simple way so that anyone can access it, in this way we will generate awareness in the population so that they take action in time, analyzing all the information that we make available to them and require their governments to take these scenarios into account and In this way we hope to contribute to the objective of the UN and reduce global famine or even eradicate it completely.
How We Developed This Project
Near real-time monitoring has become one of the most used technologies for systems integrations and IoT applications development, the ability of humanity to easily access information makes it easier to cover any need that an established community could potentially have. Making precise decisions is crucial for humanity survival, moreover, making these decisions impact the natural environment that has been affected by human interaction, will help countries take actions to make a better world for future generations.
NASA provides enough data so developers can create friendly UI so information can be displayed in a high-level language that anyone could understand. Our team decided to develop a web application (described above) using a set of tools that we decided was best suited for version tracking and future development:
- Windows 10 Operating System.
- Laravel version 8.
- PHP most recent release.
- XAMPP -v 3.2.4 for local server connection.
- Composer -v 1.10.13.
- Git bash.
Laravel integrates database management, a local apache server, file transactions, PHP language integrations for development and more. Creating web applications can be done easily and the setup takes less time than using Javascript Frameworks or plain HTML+CSS+JS. There were no problems in the development of this application (aside from typical syntax errors) as the uptime for Laravel apps in production is almost 100%, ensuring that the user can access information at any time.
To display data in the final version of the web application, our team stored using HTTP petitions to store data in a SQL dump file. Then, populated a MySQL database using this data. Finally, using Laravel built-in ORM language (ELOQUENT), data was fetched from the database and created objects that the HTML templates developed by the team could access to it as objects.
Other tools that helped in the development of this app were:
- GitHub for version control.
- Visual Studio Code for editing and git integration.
- Bootstrap 4, for predefined CSS structures and easily customizable CSS components.
- HTML, for page structure and tag identification.
- Javascript, for stylesheets and data configuration documents for a better web page display.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
We used a dataset developed by Ana Iglesias of Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Cynthia Rosenzweig of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and disseminated by the NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), managed by CIESIN at Columbia University.
Project Demo
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1B46dnPQoLRMINYutz228gWVn-ZtJDxobO5OEbUSF76M/edit?usp=sharing
Data & Resources
- Iglesias, A. and C. (2009). Rosensweig Effects of Climate Change on Global Food Production from SRES Emissions and Socioeconomic Scenarios. EARTHDATA NASA. Recovered from: https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C1418651576-SEDAC&pg[0][gsk]=-start_date&gdf=Excel&tl=1586035615!4!!&fsm0=Economic%20Resources&fst0=Human%20Dimensions
- Nordhaus, W.D., and X. Chen. (2016)Global Gridded Geographically Based Economic Data (G-Econ), Version 4. EARTHDATA NASA. Recovered from: https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C1419865113-SEDAC&pg[0][gsk]=-start_date&gdf=Excel&tl=1586035799!4!!&fsm0=Economic%20Resources&fst0=Human%20Dimensions
- Iglesias, A. (2010). Effects of climate change on global food production under SRES emissions and socio-economic scenarios. EARTHDATA NASA. Recovered from: https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C1418651576-SEDAC.html
- End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. United Nations. Recovered from: https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal2
- Early Rice Planting in Sacramento, California, USA. JAXA. Recovered from: http://earth.jaxa.jp/covid19/agriculture/en.html
- A Canadian Perspective. Government of Canada. Recovered from: https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/environment/resources/publications/impacts-adaptation/reports/assessments/2008/ch1/10295