Awards & Nominations

VASER has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!

Global Nominee

Home Planet at Your Fingertips

Develop a user-friendly application or tool to discover, visualize, and analyze NASA Earth data for monitoring our home planet.

VASER Agriculture

Summary

VASER project is a platform which provides tools directed to helping the agricultural communities by comparing NASA satellite imagery with our provided more precise and accessible aerial images. Our website selects the most viable crops for a specific space, based on a determined parameter analysis. Therefore making the agricultural process more efficient and eco friendly.

How We Addressed This Challenge

We developed an open platform for people, such as farmers and agricultural groups, to access precise satellite imagery of their lands and make better agricultural decisions. This will provide resources such as earth humidity, temperature, fertility, precipitation and soil moisture as well as the most viable crop options.

With this data people will be able to take advantage of their lands in a more sustainable way anticipating the results by knowing the factors that will affect their crops. This approach will help food production to maintain pace with population growth and avoid the food shortage predicted by actual statistics. This will be carried out with a lower impact in the ecosystems, solving a pressing problem without boosting the already present ecological impacts.

It helps the users, through a web platform to select the best food to harvest in their specific conditions. This is determined with taken images, which use sensors to analyze the conditions, such as soil moisture, humidity, land temperature, among others. The website provides a suitable range of products, and allow the agricultural community to access an open and much more precise and focused imagery of their lands.

We gather all the affecting crop factors and combining with multiple data, we select the most suitable products for the area. Through through Geographic Information Systems (GIS) we store and analyze collected crop data and combine it with other types of information.

We hope to help present and future agricultural communities by optimizing their harvesting processes. A world in which alimentation is sufficient and affordable for all, in which food is produced in sustainable ways. Improve the quality of life, for vulnerable populations.

How We Developed This Project

We were inspired by pressing problems such as ecological impact, unstable economies on vulnerable populations and the lack of food security and sustainability, which will only continue to increase if not treated property.

Learn more https://vaseragriculture.co/#process

Tools:


  • GIBs for developers
  • NASA APIS
  • NASA Earth Data
  • GPS
  • Coding language: Java Script

Gathering the necessary tools to analyze determined factores, as well as contacting help full professionals.

VASER pitch: Slide presentation

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

We used NASA's existing information, such as satellite image intelligence to compare with our aerial images, to determine specific factors, for more effective agricultural development.

Project Demo
Tags
#agriculture #satellite #precisionagriculture #opendata
Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.