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.

Wanderlust - Acquiring knowledge to change the world..

Summary

Our solution to this challenge was to develop an application for mobile and also for the web, in which NASA Earth data will be displayed in a much more intuitive and easy way for use by both a scientist and an enthusiast in the field.Our differential is to bring information that is easier to interpret for the user, providing options on how he would like it to be presented, in the form of a table, index or map, it will also be an awareness app, in addition to giving the desired information, our app will show the user the actions that caused that catastrophe and teach ways that he can change in his daily life to alleviate this problem.

How We Addressed This Challenge

It is a mobile and also a web application, in which NASA Earth data will be displayed in a much more intuitive and easy way for use by both a scientist and an enthusiast in the field.

On the home screen there are the first filters for the user to choose the data they need to see:




  • Air Quality
  • Ash Pumes
  • Drought


When selecting one of the options, a drop-down menu opens with the most specific options on the topic.

For example, when clicking on Air Quality, the following drop-down menu opens, with all the ones referring to the main theme:



When selecting one of the topics, it will be possible to select more specific information, such as from which satellite the user wants the information:




After this choice, a screen appears with the ways of presenting the data: (in this part, I thought of appearing several small screens / images of each type of presentation to make the user's choice very intuitive)




  • Satellite (map)
  • Graphics
  • Timeline
  • Text
  • Images


In another tab "Social / Save the World", it will be possible to see how this theme affects the person, in their daily lives and what actions they can take (small actions) to change this reality. (objectively and can be more playful - use our “mascot” / astronaut helmet icon as if you were talking to the user)

How We Developed This Project

We chose this theme because of the importance of disseminating all the knowledge collected over the years and made available by NASA and other partner institutions, which most people do not know or are unable to use correctly. Our approach is to simplify the use of the tools and concentrate them in one application, making their use simpler.

For the implementation of the solution we will use the Javascript programming language, together with the React.js frameworks for Web application, React-Native for mobile development and the Node.js environment for the development of the application backend. We chose these technologies because they all use Javascript, which facilitates development, code reuse, stable package manager and a very large and active community.

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

For the operation of our application we will collect information from the NASA Earth, GIBS API, NASA Giovanni, Wordwindjs and also Euro Data Clube databases, through web scraping or API calls.

Tags
#facility #javascript #earthnasa #knowledge #react #word #space
Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.