MetroSafe

MetroSafe| Planet, With People

Awards & Nominations

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

Local Peoples' Choice Winner

Global Nominee

Planet, With People

Your challenge is to build on the Human Planet Initiative of the Group on Earth Observations to apply new methods for mapping attributes of human populations. How can Human Planet data from NASA and other sources be used to improve or update maps or other information important to a problem that concerns you? Design or create a tool or service to accomplish this.

Summary

Our app provides users a way to escape natural disasters near them and be alerted of events that are of risk to them.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Our project addresses this challenge by providing users with a map of natural disasters around the world and by providing routes for users to safely evacuate their area. This is creating an impact on the world and helping people stay safe in this day and age. We hope that people can be safe and we feel like this is one way to help.

How We Developed This Project

We began this project because we were shocked by the detrimental affect of climate change. As a result we attempted to make an app to help give means to escape to those that live near these high risk areas.

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

We used NASA's EONET API service to get data in close to realtime of natural disasters globally.

Project Demo

https://youtu.be/HpTOwYWpJGo

Project Code

https://github.com/Katakana-stack/MetroSafeND

Data & Resources

https://eonet.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/v3

https://eonet.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/api/v3/events

Judging

This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.