Scanning for Lifeforms

This challenge addresses a pressing global need to track change in biological diversity, which is threatened by human-driven environmental change. Use space agency data to develop innovative ways to detect biological diversity on Earth, track and predict changes over time, and communicate that information to scientists and society.

Prediction of Biological Diversity

Summary

This project is made for visualizing the the events through small data collected through various sources for studying the comparative lifeforms and Biological Diversity from past to present. Moreover from the study of this data, prediction of future generations might be fruitful to get aware about the possible outcomes in the future from which present can be to upgraded to sustain the future lives further.

How I Addressed This Challenge

It is necessary to view the lifeforms of not only present but also the past in order of comparative study.This can provide us the possible results in the future. A small step to make people know about the difficult lives in the future world from simple visualizing data from different sources might improve the present.

Here , some environmental challenging factors has been changed overtime are climate , temperature , water , soil , air , and other abiotic factors.

Global warming trend has been observed since the mid-20century . The greenhouse gases like water vapour, carbon dioxide, methane , chlorofloro carbon, etc

blocks the heat from escaping the atmosphere resulting increase in temperature of earth.

Over the last century, the burning of the fossil fuel like coal and oil has increased the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide. This has consequences like:





  1. Temperature of the earth is increasing day by day.
  2. Increase in temperature of sea water causing evaporation, and influencing the sea lives .https://climate.nasa.gov/faq/53/is-the-ocean-continuing-to-warm/
  3. Melting of glaciers and snow caps resulting rise in sea level and

Further data related to it can be a

source from:




https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/sensing-our-planet/effects-of-emissions-on-climate-change

Related to aerosol problem over Australia;

https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/sensing-our-planet/aerosols-over-australia


Biological-diversity can be studied from different satellites and sensor used in different resolution for study of biological diversity.

https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/pathfinders/biodiversityhttps://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/toolkits/biological- diversity

Biological-diversity related spectroscopy data of species distribution :

https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/pathfinders/biodiversity/biodiversity-spectroscopy

Biodiversity information : for eg as shown in fig below of US forest canopy and more information can be withdrawn from the link below.

https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/user-resources/biodiversity-information/

species modeling data provides specific species distribution and environmental data for easy analysis of Biological diversity.

https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/pathfinders/biodiversity/species-distribution

he study about the data can provide us essential information

related to biological-diversity on earth at different locations.


And this study results the difference in the Biological diversity overtime.




  1. According to data analysis, difference


https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/pathfinders/agricultural-and-water-resources-data-pathfinder/vegetation-data/

2.In soil moisture: It provides the nature of soil that changed over period from soil moisture visualizer as shown in fig below.

In this change , Biological diversity changes from different perspectives as soil has important role in ecosystems.

3.the science of green under observation:

https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/sensing-our-planet/heart-of-drought/

This information leads to changes in the greenness of certain locations providing changes in Biological diversity.

4.The rainfall data :

Rainfall determines the vegetation of certain location and distribution of species according to the habitat.means species diversity is maximum where there is suitable environmental conditions. Changes over it can be a good source to study the Biological-diversity.

How I Developed This Project

To make people aware about the diversity of lifeforms and its change over time might bring some changes.

The data presented might bring revolutionary change in the thoughts of people. A small step by every individual can result better outcomes.

The simple visualizing data can act as evidence to the truth from different space agencies.

This project has different data used to sure changes in Biological diversity.

How I Used Space Agency Data in This Project

Space agency data helped to compare the Biological diversity at various locations. It made the project understandable in normal mode.

Project Demo

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Project Code
Tags
#greenhouse effect, Biological-diversity changes
Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.