Naturists Explorer~ Team Phoenix

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The points that made us to choose "Sustaining Our Planet for Future Generations" challenge are:

https://youtu.be/2TKk6NBVLfs

“India reported record temperatures in March 2022, making it the hottest in 122 years since records began.” (Sarkar 2022).

Our solution : https://youtu.be/2TKk6NBVLfs

From the 1980s until 2022, extremely hot days are becoming more frequent as well as more extreme, which have coincided with an increase in deaths due to heat related mortality events. “Heat waves in 2010 killed more than 1,300 people in the city of Ahmedabad alone” (Sarkar 2022) with ambient temperatures of 46.8°C and 1,400 deaths due to extreme heatwave ambient temperature of 50°C in the city of Andrah Pradesh in 2002 (Kaur et al. 2021). The extreme ambient heat in India of greater than 50 degrees Celsius is testing the boundaries of human survival capacity to withstand heat. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) published that Climate change made heatwaves in India and Pakistan ``30 times more likely" on May 24, 2022. Increased temperatures have increased spontaneous waste dump fires, agricultural fires, forest fires, decreased crop yield and incrementing melting glaciers from Himalayas will not only affect the drinking water of the future, but also the hydropower plants down river thus India’s power supply. It is extremely important particularly because extreme heat waves above 50 degrees celsius are not seen worldwide, but they are becoming more and more frequent in India, Africa and Arabia and occasionally in the Western coast of the United States. Over time, once limitations of the human body within these extreme heat environments for survival are determined with more research and temperatures become more extreme due to climate change, during certain seasons parts of the world might become in-inhabitable. Personally I am accelerating my death by breathing in the capital of India, New Delhi, due to its air pollution. Besides the use of coal and biofuels that worsen air pollution and climate change, extreme heat due to climate change is also increasing the frequency of fires in India thus contributing as well to air pollution. New Delhi is the world's most polluted city in the world and also my place of residence. It has made masks to be my essential clothing. The extremes of temperature due to global warming also made it hard to survive here.

Impact:

MUCH IMPACT (QUALITY AND QUANTITY WISE) SOLVES A BIG PROBLEM INSPIRES MANY

One of the greatest problems our generation faces is dealing with the repercussions of the climate change. These changes are results of preponderance of people disregarding the severity or even it's existence. Therefore the primary focus of our project was to spread awareness among people who could make a difference in this fight against climate change. To this end, our app "NE-AR: Naturists Explorer-Augmented Reality" aims to compel the youth to take actions otherwise these changes will become irreparable. Our app provides varied features which enables the user to view a location and then enter a survey answering questions such as how much the area has been taken care of and global warming presence etc. After which the user will see a blast from the past or the capture of the future through the usage of Augmented reality and also see the effects, causes and solutions through NASA data sets, also, allowing sharing of these across any platform. The novelty of the app is the time scroller which allows a movement of past and future years. These accordingly allow us to view using AR how that respective location will look in the next upcoming years or how it looked years ago. These two timelines allow us to target varied age groups be it kids, adolescents or elders and a very distinct demographic one would be the youth and the influencers who can help popularize the app through sharing and thus will spread awareness about climate change issue. The other aims at the older generation which will use the feature as a way to indulge in nostalgia, while at the same time realizing how climate change has affected our lives. Therefore, our app aims to solve a major issue which is to inspire and spread awareness amongst people who blatantly refuse to believe in it or realize the urgency of the issue.

Creativity:

CREATIVE NOVEL APPROACH AND IMPROVED APP

Though the use of AR is increasingly becoming more mainstream, the creativity of the project lies in how seamlessly it amalgamates the different technological advances while adding new features to it. These new add-ons to the design allow us to solve a major issue of spreading awareness about the climate change and sustainability of the future which go hand in hand and urge people to make a difference.

The Weather Channel has used similar animations to showcase various weather phenomena though these have all been performed in a closed and controlled environment with mixed reality using live as well as recorded. Another novelty is that our project aims to apply AR animations on existing structures instead of with them. Thus, this will allow the app to completely change the landscape that is visible through the app. The add-on photo feature for sharing on any platform and get resources through NASA data sets are also an instrumental part which will allow the app to gain popularity faster.

Validity:

SCIENTIFICALLY VALID TO MAKE PEOPLE AWARE AND SAVE OUR FUTURE GENERATIONS

BASED ON NASA EARTH OBSERVATIONS DATA IN THE REAL WORLD

The solution is scientifically valid as it will take data directly from NASA datasets and climate departments. NASA will also show how climate change is affecting a specific location. Also, surveys will be taken locally through the app or independently about how the area is being taken care of depending on which it will provide an alternate between a dystopian view or a more sustained environment. The app will work on concrete data provided by the government of the area and the NASA satellites which records and analyses the whole globe. Ultimately, the aim is to help people become aware of how their surrounding areas are handling the issue of the Climate change and sustainability of the future while spreading more awareness about this issue. If some technological advances can take place the app can successfully work in real world.

Relevance:

APP RESPONSIVE TO SUSTAINABILITY OF THE CHALLENGE TECHNICALLY FEASIBLE VERY USABLE AND USER FRIENDLY INTERACTIVE PLATFORM

The aim of our project is to raise awareness about the environmental issues that we face today. The app will allow this through the AR images of the location which allows the user to understand how the world is getting affected by these changes in the climate. The app allows an easy feature to capture photos and videos and share these on social media platforms which will help popularize the app which in turn will allow us to spread awareness to more people. The solution is not yet complete and quite a long shot as it will require better network connections and camera resolutions which can easily capture the view or they’ll be required to point at the view for few brief seconds before it can create a duplicate copy of the scene which can then be manipulated according to the data provided by NASA satellites and local surveys.

The real inspiration behind this app for our team was by seeing how many people were unaware of these major issues of climate change and sustainability and not being receptive of the same.

NE-AR is the solution to the challenge imposed, in a simple mobile application and a complete information platform where we approach these issues, we collect information from different sources, like NASA, International demographic, climate databases and the official data of each local climate and weather department. In NE-AR, users can easily see a real time blast from the past and a capture from the future in the place where they live or where they travel to. This application also encourages people to submit more data for NASA researchers on Earth and the space and also provides educational information to people who want to learn more, showing them what the locations used to look like using older satellite data by NASA by using earth explorer or worldview earth data websites of NASA as well as by predicting what the future will look like by local and NASA survey broad predictions data, like generally what sea level rise will look like in 100 years by using the sea level NASA website, even thought it's hard to predict exactly what specific ice sheets or locations will look like.

Alongside, NASA can recruit people to work on the survey parts, thus, increasing employment opportunities among the youth. NASA can also collect local surveys from the users through the app at regular intervals to be updated from time to time. It will also allow NASA to gather large information that is more specific, accurate and localized info.

In case the app is not feasible in case of technical issues then we can choose specific locations which are popular where we can present AR as well as VR visuals for the already created models which we can manipulate as well.

The working of NE-AR (Naturist Explorer - Augmented Reality):

First the user would install the application in their device. Subsequently when they open it, the app would directly open the devices camera (similar to Snapchat). the user presses the NE-AR mode button present right next to the camera capture. This step opens up a timeline at bottom of the device screen with a slider on it. Once the user slides the slider to a time period on the timeline (ranging from 50 years in the past to 100 years in the future), the real fun begins!

The application will overcast the camera display with its own rendering of how the image would look like in the time period that the user chose to view it in ( for instance 100 years in the future, or 50 years in the past, etc.). And yes, that’s that!

You now posses the power to let your eyes time travel at the touch of a button. However, the surreal potential offered to the user by the application involves some intensive exploitation of large data bases and a very intricate clockwork to handle and analyze that data.

Now that we know what the application does we can breakdown how it works into 5 parts:

1. Capture
2. Throw
3. Process
4. Receive
5. Display

PARTS IN DETAIL:

1 ) CAPTURE: The first step, of course, would be to capture what the camera is recording on the device while the application is open.

2) THROW: The captured audio and video input is sent to NNS (NE-AR NASA Servers) along with additional details extracted from the device. These include:

• a) The device’s geo-coordinates
• b) 5 seconds of devices audio/video footage
• c) And the slider value that the user chose on the timeline

3) PROCESS: The details extracted and THROWN from the device are collected by NNS for further process. The secret behind NE-AR’s unimaginable performance and efficiency would be NNS. NNS would be AI enabled, with access to cloud data other than the data it would already possess and collect overtime. So, the key components of NNS to cope up to the demand are:

• a) GNLDL – Global NE-AR Live Data Library

The GNLDL would be a state-of-the-art library with a data organization AI. This library would contain an undefined number of parameters for any geo-coordinate/ location on earth. These parameters would vary from basic information -like temperature, humidity, and altitude- to complex data like -Precipitation amount, Cloud Density and classification, Radiation Flux, Soil moisture, and at least 60 such arguments. All this data and topographical information would be collected from ESA, CNES, JAXA, CSA, and NASA data sets. (Details about data sets are provided separately)

• b) NCAI (NE-AR Computational Artificial Intelligence)

To give the user the most realistic outlook of the future they want to see through their NE-AR application, just large array of data isn’t enough. That data needs to be used and processed in a write manner to generate precise predictions and possible outcomes. This is where NCAI comes in. It keeps learning the behavior of nature and humans.

For example, the user clicks a photograph of an iceberg. The AI has learnt from its previous data that the iceberg is going to start melting in around few years due to unattended issue of global warming. Thus, it will give a near accurate prediction that the ice berg will continue melting and shrinking; and will accordingly send this information to be displayed as an AR overlay on the image of the captured by the user.

Another example would be if we think about the forest lands in developing industrial areas, farmlands suffering from unhealthy farming and agriculture practices, ground water levels in desert areas – then the AI would be able to exponentially increase its ability to predict the future of environmental entities and whether they will be sustained or will they be exploited and removed from the face of earth.

• c) NEDURAS (NE-AR Environment Deterioration and Rectification Alert System)

Once NCAI has done its work, it is sent to NEDURAS for analysis. NEDURAS will be pre-programmed to spot out any anomalies or dangers in the environment. Let’s continue with the ‘Iceberg Example’. Now since the NCAI has predicted that its going to melt, the NEDURAS would spot this as an unidealistic condition in the nature as ice bergs aren’t supposed to melt in their cold habitat at such a rapid rate. It will, consequently, conclude the NCAI finding as a rise in the temperature of that area and develop an alert for the user and NASA scientists. But it doesn’t just stop there, it would classify the alert (red, orange, yellow) according to the magnitude of the danger/anomaly and log it for the NE-AR customers (like environmentalists). According to the level of the alert the user would be sent a method of rectification or prevention too.

• d) NDC (NE-AR Data compiler)

After so much work has been performed by the various components of NNS, it needs to be compiled and formatted to be understood and processed by an Augmented-Reality Development Kit like Vuforia. This is done by the NDC. NDC is the end component of the NNS where all the information is systematically gathered and rebounded to the user’s NEAR application.

4) RECEIVE: At this step, the NE-AR application receives AR-ready data from the NNS. The data is then used to develop AR entities and effects.

5) DISPLAY: These developed entities and effects are casted and displayed on the image. Finally, The user can see how the environment that he captured in his photograph looked like/ would look like in the time they chose. Alerts and prevention methods, if any, are also displayed to the user to inform them and help them sustain their beautiful surroundings, and consequently, their beautiful planet, Earth.

Things used to develop the same are:

• NASA and ESA datasets: WEkEO service
• Augmented Reality technology
• Software creator

WEkEO is the EU Copernicus DIAS reference service for environmental data, virtual processing environments and skilled user support.We have used the database of WEkEO for the functioning of NEAR app

NASA ARSET: Land Surface Temperature-Based Urban Heat Island of India is used to get the wide picture of New Delhi along with the help of ECOSTRESS particularly ECO2LSTE v001 (land surface temperature and emissivity daily L2 global 70 m).

Engaging with the resources, we collected data from all of these agencies like NASA, ESA, CSA, CNES and JAXA and found creative ways to incorporate them into our projects. All sites were very useful for us and influenced our project greatly, especially, to make our application's video and website, working and mechanism.

The Space Apps experience was scintillating. We learned a lot, but the most important learning experience was teamwork. Despite not being all in the same time zone, we all shared a common interest to raise awareness of climate change hazards that are intensifying in India and try to do something about it.

"We Do Not Inherit the Earth from Our Ancestors; We Borrow It from Our Children"

Climate change is real. No other challenge poses a greater threat to the sustainability of the future generations than climate change. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating. We created our app to communicate the importance of sustaining our home planet to people of all generations. AR is one of the most effective ways of communicating that message and connecting with people across generations. We are utilizing digital technology, incorporating artwork, and emphasizing a communications strategy by utilizing NASA’s data in creative ways -- to inform ourselves and others as a visual inspiration. This app engages younger generations that are not as involved with these environmental issues as well as the older generations.

Our team was determined to do this project as we knew the reality of Climate Change and also suffering from it at some levels. The problems faced were: To find out whether Virtual Reality (VR) or Augmented Reality(AR) was a better tool to use but with some more research AR was found out to be better than VR as unlike VR, AR keeps us connected with the real world as well.

To virtually communicate with other members and Subject Matter Experts as network connections were not always up to the mark but with time management and team’s co-operation we were able to overcome this problem. Diverse working times as team members were diverse from Engineers to Doctors to different time zones from Dominican Republic, Turkey to India created difficulties for us but we overcame by distributing the roles and contributions of each member by evaluating their qualities and expertise as well as by burning midnight oil for mutual hours of productivity.

AR working and mechanism since AR field knowledge members and coders were lacking in our team but we tried to learn the AR working and mechanisms through NASA’s websites (3D NASA SPACECRAFT) and YouTube Channels. Due to the pandemic stress and anxiety, members were not able to work efficiently but we took breaks to keep our mind peaceful and focused. At last, we were able to overcome all the problems we faced and reached the final end product.

"WHOLE TEAM COOPERATION TOWARDS ONE SOLUTION"

In summary, due to the importance of climate change hazards seen currently in India like the episodes of extreme heat of more than 50 degrees celsius due to climate change that test the human body survival limitations and its “butterfly effects”, prompted us to take the space app challenge in attempts to raise awareness with augmented reality software.

DATA SOURCES:

• https://www.wekeo.eu
• https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-ecostress-detects-heat-islands-in-extreme-indian-heat-wave
• https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/149086/a-shot-of-smoke-for-delhi
• https://www.ceew.in/publications/climate-change-air-pollution-and-human-health-delhi-india
• https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-ecostress-detects-heat-islands-in-extreme-indian-heat-wave
• https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/149086/a-shot-of-smoke-for-delhi
• https://www.ceew.in/publications/climate-change-air-pollution-and-human-health-delhi-india

#Ozone layer data for GNLDL:

• https://climate.nasa.gov/resources/graphics-and-multimedia/?page=0&per_page=25&order=pub_date+desc&search=&condition_1=1%3Ais_in_resource_list

#Global temp, Sea level and CO2 level over time for GNLDL and NEDURAS:

• https://climate.nasa.gov/interactives/climate-time-machine

#Global Palsar Forest/Non-Forest Map to get data on foliage cover for GNLDL:

• https://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/ALOS/en/palsar_fnf/fnf_index.htm#description

#G-Portal:

• GCOM-C, GCOM-W, and GPM; GCOM-C to get land and atmosphere parameters; GCOM-W to get sea and ocean parameters;

#GPM to get global precipitation parameters:

• https://gportal.jaxa.jp/gpr/index/index?lang=en

#Earth Observation of RADARSAT-2 (for mapping and geology) to develop topo graph and cartographs for GNLDL:

• https://asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/radarsat2/applications.asp

#Older satellite data information:

• https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/

#Future predictions data:

• https://sealevel.nasa.gov/vesl/web/sea-level/slr-gravity/

#Images of Climate change :

• https://climate.nasa.gov/images-of-change?id=738#738-southeastern-australia-turns-green

#AR usage of NASA info:

• https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-at-home-virtual-tours-and-augmented-reality

• https://www.nasa.gov/feature/using-augmented-reality-to-prepare-orion-hardware-for-artemis-ii-crewed-mission

LITERATURE:

#AR AND SUSTAINABILITY RELATIONSHIP:

• https://filling-space.com/2019/10/03/how-will-virtual-and-augmented-reality-affect-sustainability/

#CLIMATE CHANGE AND ICE BERG EFFECTS, CAUSES AND SOLUTIONS :

• https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

#CITIZEN SCIENCE PROJECTS:

• https://science.nasa.gov/citizenscience

#AR USAGE IN WEATHER CHANNEL INFO:

• https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/the-weather-channels-augmented-reality-segments.html

#NASA EARTH SATELLITE VIEWS:

• https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/earthdayathome-with-nasa/

• https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/

#OTHER ARTICLES ON CURRENT CLIMATE CHANGE HAZARDS IN INDIA:

• WHO (2022). "Climate change made heatwaves in India and Pakistan "30 times more likely" https://public.wmo.int/en/media/news/climate-change-made-heatwaves-india-and-pakistan-30-times-more-likely

• Kaur et. al (2021). "Air Pollution, Climate Change, and Human Health in Indian Cities: A Brief Review." Front. Sustain. Cities, 13 August 2021 Sec. Climate Change and Cities https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2021.705131 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsc.2021.705131/full

• Sarkar (2022). "This is why India's heatwaves are getting hotter." World Economic Forum. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/04/india-heatwaves-hotter-more-frequent

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