Biohackers| Scanning for Lifeforms
Scanning for Lifeforms
The Species Finder App
Summary
World’s biodiversity is threatened by climate change and human interactions with the environment like urbanization and the conversion of habitat among other factors, so, to understand the distribution and movement of species is important to maintain our biodiversity and protect our species. Derived from it and using data from space agents, we have decided to provide information that allows society and scientist to take suitable decisions to start conservation and restoration measures of biodiversity. By means of the information obtained, “SpeciesFinder'' was created, an educational app with Swift directed to young students and teachers, which will allow the user to know about biodiversity.
How We Addressed This Challenge
We developed and iOS application that scans for some endangered and invasive species in certain areas or regions of the globe and shows the distribution of endangered and threated mammals in NorthAmerica. We intend to expand the search of species with vegetation data and to other regions of the American continent and the rest of the world using API's that could provide us with the right information. We hope that users download this app to adopt a more comprehensive understanding of how some animal and vegetal species are being threatened by us humans and the places in which these species need an extreme attention towards their conservation for future generations.
How We Developed This Project
Using swift as programming language, Xcode and some RESTful web services we developed an application for iOS devices that scans for some endangered and invasive species in certain areas or regions of the globe and shows the distribution of endangered and threatened mammals in NorthAmerica. We intend to expand the search of species with vegetation data and to other regions of the American continent and the rest of the world using API's that could provide us with the right information.
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
With the information of the https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data, https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/species-global-mammal-richness-2015
and https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/ we determined the regions in which more attention to endangered and critically endangered mammals was needed, and we plan to expand the search to threated vegetation by wild fires and other phenomenona with the following API: https://eonet.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/v3.
Project Demo
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1D0_RWYFiKIhOhKR0KOevckHXTlf9Mge5
Data & Resources
https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data
https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/species-global-mammal-richness-2015
https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/
POT. (sf). Biological Diversity and Ecological Forecasting | Earthdata. NASA EARTHDATA. Retrieved October 3, 2020, fromBiological Diversity and Ecological Forecasting | Earthdata
· POT. (2020, April 7). Species Distribution Modeling Data | Earthdata. Earthdata Powered by EOSIS.Species Distribution Modeling Data | Earthdata
OTHERS:
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... and soon: https://eonet.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/v3.