Through space in time| Home Planet at Your Fingertips
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Home Planet at Your Fingertips
Through space and time
Summary
Wouldn't it be great if you could quickly see how climate change, population sizes and other changes are evolving through time? Data is everywhere and yet, most of us don't get to experience it. But we make it easy for you and keep it simple for you to learn more of it.
How We Addressed This Challenge
Our web app is as simple as you can get, one site in which you can select a place around the world and the type of data you want to visualise: global temperature, vegetation index, you name it! Using NASA's open source datasets and Web WorlWind API we provide a powerful tool for looking around the globe in an instant while keeping it minimalistic to encourage people to add further dataset integrations and analysis of the data if they want to.
How We Developed This Project
We were ourselves not aware of the amount of data and tools which NASA open sourced and were discussing this during the team formation phase. So we found it would be very interesting to combine WorldWind (which provides an awesome 3D visualisation) with many datasets so that you can click and see everything right away. Since we are also not experts in web development, we wanted to show with the project how little code and effort actually requires to integrate some of the information available and showcase an analysis of the retrieved data for your own city. Hopefully this can be used to encourage people as well to try it out themselves because in the end, it is only about 300 lines of code!
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
We used Web WorldWind visualisation tool for getting the 3d globe on our website and to display the different data "layers" on the globe.
For the displayed data "layers" and corresponding analysis, we used NASA Earth Observations dataset and APIs. Source: https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Project Demo
We recommend that you watch the video demonstration attached here to understand what works and the intended us so far.
Here is our demo video: https://youtu.be/uPQXu37vx64
Watched it already? Cool! Come enjoy our web app here: https://nasaspacetime.co/
Data & Resources
Web WorldWind. Source: https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/web/
NASA Earth Observations dataset and APIs. Source: https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/