Alpha Optimus - Space Apps Challenge

Alpha Optimus| Sustaining Our Planet for Future Generations

Sustaining Our Planet for Future Generations

There is concern worldwide that environmental issues we face today will have an impact on future generations. Your challenge is to create a way to communicate the importance of environmental responsibility to people of all ages.

Entech 369

Summary

Our team ,Alpha Optimus worked for years to create environment friendly products from our own innovation which could create massive impact on greenhouse effects and deforestation. We developed our own website Entech 369 to communicate with all generations of people. Communication is the key to develop better future for earth

How We Addressed This Challenge

En-Tech 369

Our project aim to teach people from all generations about the alternate solution and to create a sustainable earth for us. For the project, we had to teach ourselves the danger of deforestation, greenhouse effect and how all these occurs. There was a forest of about 208,000 square kilometers (about 51.4 million acres) located in the state of Rondônia in western Brazil. Now it has become one of the most deforested parts of Amazon. In the past three decades, clearing and degradation of the state’s forests have been rapid. Let’s have a look:4,200 square kilometres was cleared in 1978; 30,000 in 1988; 53,300 in 1998. In 2003, an estimated 67,764 square kilometres of rain-forest (an area larger than the state of West Virginia) had been cleared.. We have seen the images from ASTER AND ALI. ASTER ( Advance Space-borne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) and ALI ( The Advance Land Image ) provide a detailed picture of deforestation but its in a small scale.

These occurs by many means. So working for it help us to educated ourselves and make a solution for one problems. Our project reflects the change in land, weather, climate, economies and many more through decision and consequences.

How We Developed This Project

Our team Is a group of undergraduate students who are passionate about making a more sustainable place. In our country, cow dung is usually used for making bio fuel. Also, a lot of trees are being cut down through the world for wrapping and writings. This creates deforestation and rising of green house gases and warm areas. Oxygen level is decreasing and methane level is increasing. Methane is a greenhouse gas and concentration of it due to industrial revolution is responsible for 20% to 30% of Earth rising temperature to date. Methane gets produced in anaerobic condition so the concentration found in NASA 3D view of methane leads that there is also no oxygen found in those areas. Greenhouses gases like carbon dioxide levels in the air has increased to 414 parts per million. Over the past 170 years, the concentration of co2 raised by 47%. Global Temperature is increased by 2 degree Fahrenheit. See level has increased by 178 mm. So, we have developed our project which is to create papers from cow dung and it will decreased cutting down woods thus help in decreasing deforestation and greenhouse gases. This alternate method is environment friendly and more over and it takes the same cost as before. If you go to our site you see the deforestation level map taken from Nasa data and there is an animation video so that all generation people can understand. Next there are data from Daichi 2, Earth Observatory and Earth Data sites. We use Python, JavaScript and Html to develop our project. Our papers are very demanding in our areas and we are very much proud of it. This environment friendly products demand now giving inspirations to people create more similar kind of product. This chain of enthusiasm is very much needed to create a sustainable world for better future.

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

We have been through the data of deforestation, green house gases , ozone layer from NASA satellite and NASA’s partner agency . There was map of deforestation areas around the world. Just searching the location, you can see how much trees are being cutting down. Next Nasa 3d view of methane concentration shows how much methane gets concentrated and it also so us the disappearing of oxygen in the same areas. We have seen the images from ASTER AND ALI. ASTER ( Advance Space-borne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) and ALI ( The Advance Land Image ) provide a detailed picture of deforestation but its in a small scale.