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Taipei | How Does Climate Change Affect You?

Rain city without rain

High-Level Project Summary

This work is a three-minute film. Description Keelung, Taiwan has always been a rainy city, but there is a drought in July-August 2022! Based on satellite information and open source data from the Taiwan government, this film confirms that the drought in Keelung, Taiwan is related to climate change. The issue of climate change is no longer limited to academic discussions, but has seriously affected our daily lives and even subverted our cognition.

Link to Final Project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ0W5p2q30s

Link to Project "Demo"

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qlmAU6bGn5JlE_Gd3u2uWfCLQ0lGd725/view?usp=sharing

Detailed Project Description

All files and materials are included in:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17wqldjAXyTXvs9KVGn7tJjLziglrhlye?usp=sharing

Space Agency Data

At the end of the film, I will tell you how serious the issues of climate change and global warming are.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/global-maps/MOD_LSTAD_M

In this film, the satellite information of ESA is used to find out that the water signal of Keelung Reservoir is declining:

https://climate.esa.int/en/evidence/esa-missions-relating-climate/

Hackathon Journey

In this event, I led a few students to form a team during the programming goodwill course sponsored by the Taiwan Ministry of Education during the summer vacation this year.

The biggest encouragement to me this time is that although my students usually have classes to attend, they all participate in the entire competition for the sake of relationships that they find interesting. Even the logo was automatically designed by them, the materials for the plot were also collected, and they also participated in discussions and rehearsals during the entire editing process.

This time we want to discuss whether it is possible to combine the local culture of Taiwan's cities with technology to promote Taiwan to the world. Coincidentally, I encountered the drought in Keelung, Taiwan this year, so I thought of taking advantage of it!

These students also felt that they could help their hometowns and remind everyone of the dangers of climate change. If they win, there will be bonuses, and even if they are global champions, they can visit NASA. They were all excited.

It seems that teaching students in the future will still have to use ways to arouse their curiosity to get twice the result with half the effort!

Special thanks to:

Dr. Jhih-Cyuan Shen, Civil Engineer of LASS group. He provides a lot of open source consultation.