Breathing Hope| Sustaining Our Planet for Future Generations
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Sustaining Our Planet for Future Generations
Breathing Hope
Summary
Pollution is a global problem. Costa Rica doesn’t escape to this reality, just here, around 4000, plastic and daily waste are produced and aren’t treated correctly. That is why Breathing Hope was created; a project that seeks to raise people's awareness with truthful and accurate information provided NASA as well as other space agencies, through satellite studies the user will be able to see the environmental status of their country, demonstrating the decrease in pollution thanks to the challenges presented per province. We hope to create a community through our social network in which users can share these challenges, join groups and connect with a common goal, save our planet.
How We Addressed This Challenge
Breathing Hope is a social network where you can interact with different environmentalists, making challenges and visualizing the impact that is left on the environment with real-time images provided by NASA.
In addition, allowing different companies to join together and meet environmental responsibilities.
Thanks to the environmental challenges that are presented in the social network, users will be able to create an impact in their communities, reduce the level of contamination, while there is an exchange of information, actions and contacts; We hope that our project will raise awareness around the world.
How We Developed This Project
In search of references on what topic to cover as a challenge, we entered the official NASA website and observed something that impacted us, the vital signs of the planet; If the change doesn't happen now, what will happen to us? With that idea in mind, we chose to Sustain our planet for future generations.
In Costa Rica social networks such as Facebook are used more than 17% than in the rest of Latin America, the great use of social networks in this country and the rest of the world is a key to communication where you can raise your voice, voice of our planet.
For our team, there were problems in the development of the website and the knowledge we had about national information; however, as a team we were able to work on each issue and address them as best we could to achieve our challenge.
WebSite: http://breathinghope.co/
Slides:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KwEhWh_9inXzOX-TPpgjlKauc6sO4Mir/view
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project
Use of NASA-provided APIs on: carbon dioxide, temperature, surface air temperature, land surface temperature, and sea surface temperature anomalies. These were included on our website and mobile application. People can visualize the problems of the environment, informing themselves and creating awareness about the evil that we are doing to planet earth; It is intended that through challenges are generated little by little the planet can improve and people can visualize it through maps.
Also allowing us to verify the effectiveness of the awareness created in users to improve the environment. Since if the ozone layer improves in an area it would demonstrate said effectiveness.
Project Demo
Project Code
Data & Resources
• NASA's Global Imagery Browse Services:
◦ GIBS:
https://wiki.earthdata.nasa.gov/display/GIBS/GIBS+API+for+Developers#GIBSAPIforDevelopers-ImageryLayers&Endpoints
https://climate.nasa.gov/earth-now/?vs_name=air_temperature&dataset_id=820&group_id=46&animating=f&start=&end=#/vitalsign?vitalsign=satellites&altid=0&animating=f&start=&end=
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/global-maps?utm_campaign=nav20&utm_source=topnav&utm_medium=globalmaps
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images
▪ Documentation
• https://wiki.earthdata.nasa.gov/display/GIBS/GIBS+Available+Imagery+Products
•Information and numbers about the people from Guanacaste:
INEC. (2015). Guanacaste Población. Population City. http://poblacion.population.city/costa-rica/adm/guanacaste/#:%7E:text=Este%20fue%207.107%25%20del%20total,2020%20ser%C3%ADa%3A%20389%20188*
•Investigation about the trash problems in Guanacaste:
Sheffield, J. (2018, September). Guanacaste se ahoga en basura. La Nación, Grupo Nación. https://www.nacion.com/opinion/foros/guanacaste-se-ahoga-en-basura/X775PQMVKRAGXLLJQ3E7UCL6A4/story/
•Investigation about the local emission of gases in Puntarenas province:
Tecnología en Marcha, (2020), file:///C:/Users/Andres/Downloads/4333-Texto%20del%20art%C3%ADculo-14728-1-10-20200529.pdf
Information about bad management of trash in Limón province:
Bosque, D. (2017, October). Limón no sabe qué hacer con su basura. La Nación, Grupo Nación. https://www.nacion.com/el-pais/salud/limon-no-sabe-que-hacer-con-su-basura/PH6XF22X2VANNFZZOKCWM3I4TI/story/
•River polution from the company RECOPE:
Salas, J. L. (2017, October). Recope admite contaminación en río de Cartago con restos de hidrocarburos. La NaciÃ3n, Grupo NaciÃ3n. https://www.nacion.com/el-pais/servicios/recope-admite-contaminacion-en-rio-de-cartago-con-restos-de-hidrocarburos/UBT45GZ7URHSLJYC725E3A4CTQ/story/
•Article about the carbon dioxide emissions in Cartago province:
Rodriguez, S. (2020, june). Emisiones por habitante de Cartago son tres veces mayores al promedio nacional. ameliarueda.com. https://www.ameliarueda.com/nota/huella-carbono-cartago-es-tres-veces-mayor-promedio-nacional
•Garbage left in the San José streets:
Solano, A. (2017, may). Municipalidad de San José ignora problemática por botadero clandestino en La Carpio. El Mundo CR. https://www.elmundo.cr/costa-rica/municipalidad-de-san-jose-ignora-problematica-por-botadero-clandestino-en-la-carpio/
•Information about the ordinary trash in Costa Rica:
Ministerio de Salud, Oficina de Prensa. (2017, October). Costa Rica reduce depósito de residuos en los vertederos en un 5%. Ministerio de Salud. https://www.ministeriodesalud.go.cr/index.php/noticias/noticias-2017/1147-costa-rica-reduce-deposito-de-residuos-en-los-vertederos-en-un-5
•Global information about trash management:
BBC News Mundo. (2019, July 8). “Crisis mundial de la basura”: 3 cifras impactantes sobre el rol de Estados Unidos. https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-8914734#:%7E:text=El%20grupo%20especializado%20en%20an%C3%A1lisis,de%20esa%20basura%20es%20reciclada.