Sentinel - Astroboys| Home Planet at Your Fingertips
Home Planet at Your Fingertips
World Visualizer
Summary
Our project is a web page, which you can use to browse and analyze different aspects that are affecting planet Earth. We have integrated an interactive map that has a menu, from which you can toggle different aspects or key points that you would like to see displayed on said map.
How We Addressed This Challenge
In this project we needed to develop a user-friendly application or tool to discover, visualize, and analyze NASA Earth data for monitoring our home planet. To complete this challenge, we developed a platform, so that everyone could have access to it.
Our platform has worldwide information. We added a map with percentages that shows you where COVID-19 is and how much a country has. We also added earthquakes that have happened since the beginning of 2020 until now and some points were wildfires have happened. In another map we annexed the weather of some countries. We also added a video of NASA where you can see how the weather has changed in the past years.
We tried to make our platform easy to navigate for everyone. To do this we put a map where it shows all the information. There you can pick what you want to see and what you don´t.
We think this is important information because everyone needs to be informed of the situation we are living in right now. We need to start taking precautions so we can stop causing a lot of problems in the world.
With this project we hope to get some attention from people and spread the idea of taking care of the planet. We also hope that we can show the information that people need and help them in their day.
How We Developed This Project
ASTROBOYS is a team of four students from CETYS UNIVERSIDAD in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, that is part of the Sentinel Fox Engineering Team 4584 robotics team. We were inspired to do this project by a mentor in Sentinel Fox. We saw an opportunity to help inform ourselves and other people throughout these projects.
While developing our project we had a different approach in the beginning then at the end. We were trying to create a page only with the requirements we needed but then we saw that our project could inform other people and not only the judges and us but also friends, family, and other people that find this page.
Our World Visualizer uses open source data and turns it into a user-friendly map where users from all around the world can visualize what's going on the world right now.
We had a lot of problems like learning new topics from the ground up, with zero previous knowledge about it, like when we were developing the map, we needed to download programs like Open Office Calc and QHIS, also, we had problems with communication, due to COVID-19, all of our meetings were online, so that affected the dynamic of talking face to face.
On the other side, we got a lot of knowledge from doing research on multiple sites and from video tutorials, it was a good learning experience that could and will help us in future projects.
Our map has a great potential for future events and we plan to include more NASA information like global temperature, biomes, mammals around the world, human footprint per region and more, the sky is only the limit.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
We used Space Agency Open source data by searching specific perimeters we needed for our map, then we downloaded shapefiles and worksheets with coordinates so QHIS could locate point in out maps, we repeated the process over and over with specific topics.
Project Demo
Web page: https://sentinelastroboys.co/index.html
Video: https://youtu.be/7U0y0Rx3cJk
Data & Resources
World Bank Official Boundaries | Data Catalog. (s. f.). World Bank. Recovered 4 of October, 2020, from https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/dataset/world-bank-official-boundaries
W.H.O. (s. f.). Situation reports. WorldHealthOrganization. Recovered 4 of October, 2020, from https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/situation-reports/
B. (s. f.-a). Human Anatomy and Disease in Interactive 3D | BioDigital Human Platform. BioDigital 2019. Recovered 4 of October, 2020, from https://human.biodigital.com
N. (2020, 2 October). Earthdata. earthdata.nasa. Recovered from https://earthdata.nasa.gov/
NASA Climate Change. (2020, 16 January). Global Temperature Anomalies from 1880 to 2019 [Vídeo]. YouTube. Recovered from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sqdyEpklFU&feature=youtu.be
Search Earthquake Catalog. (s. f.). earthquake.usgs.gov. Recovered 4 of October, 2020, from https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/search/
Incident. (s. f.). data-niftc. Recovered 4 of October, 2020, from https://data-nifc.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/incident-3/data