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Our New Space
Summary
Our New Space is a Web and Mobile App to integrate pre-existing NASA, ESA, CSA, CNES, and JAXA datasets with custom-made datasets related to the environment, weather, and ecosystems, among others.
How I Addressed This Challenge
The main problem is that there is a lot of information from space agencies, but difficult to access or manipulate for regular users. It is important because, the more access to information, the better quality decisions are made. The purpose was to build on existing technologies instead of creating a new one at least during the validation phase by integrating available satellite information using the ESRI platform to make it easily accessible to everyone via web and mobile. With that purpose in mind, two functional prototypes were build: web and mobile. Every update will be added to the resulting map as a new layer. In the future, those new layers will have improved characteristics like better resolutions, AI processing and brand new content for instance. Regular updates and user validations will be conducted to improve every new version.
How I Developed This Project
This challenge was chosen because access to information leads to better observations in qualitative and quantitative terms. The approach was to build on existing infrastructure. Not to invent the wheel but to use existing wheels with a delivery service to the finger tips. Among the tools used, are: Google Sites, GoDaddy Domain, ESRI's ArcGIS, Datasets from NASA, Global Forest Watch, ESA, JAXA, and GBIF to begin with. CSA, CNES, Meteomatics, and others to come. Because of working with free testing environments, some restrictions limited the first prototype. Nevertheless, it is up, running and functional.
How I Used Space Agency Data in This Project
Any geospatial open data can be used with Our New Space project. In this particular case, pre-existing datasets (layers) from NASA and others were used in the prototype. A test 10m resolution DEM was built using JAXA's ALOS PALSAR datasets for a fragile high elevation ecosystem located in Colombia called Paramo Jurisdicciones-Santurban-Berlin was created because existing free DEMs are 30m and 90m resolution. The delimitation of the ecosystem was uploaded. Some tech difficulties with the upload to the prototype were experienced. Time was so short.
Project Demo
The fully functional first prototype, solicited documentation and support materials can be accessed at: https://sites.google.com/view/ournewspace/
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No code was developed.
Data & Resources
Open Datasets from NASA, Global Forest Watch, ESA, JAXA, ESRI, GBIF and Colombian Government. Tested other tools.