Awards & Nominations
Space seismologists has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!
Global Nominee
A Moonquakes Visualization
High-Level Project Summary
A 3D moon visualization on a web app that allows user to overview all the moon seismics which took place beetween 1969 and 1977. Furthermore, it allows for filtering of the events by start and end date. At the same time, the point color gives depth information of the seismic events.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
We have deployed a Web Application with a 3D viewer of the Moon. The application allows for: i) navigating the Moon while having an overview of all seismic events that happened between 1969 and 1977; ii) filtering these representations by date; iii) clustering the seismic events based on depth where they originated.
Firstly, we worked with Python programming language to extract, transform and load (ETL) data at hand. Furthermore, we developed ASP.NET Core MVC Server that served a html page with JavaScript (including the WebGL library three.js) and CSS to improve visual display. There are also a few AJAX calls for getting the data from the server.
We believe our approach contributes to make the Moon seismic data available and easily manageable to the general public, in an effort to develop an open and free science. Additional information can be found at our GitHub repository: https://github.com/ivanmm25/space_seismologists.
Space Agency Data
Data obtained from https://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/missions/apollo/seismic_event_catalog.htm, essentially employing either Nakamura seismic catalog (locations, arrivals files) (1979-2005) or Lognonné et al. (2006) datasets.
Hackathon Journey
It has been an incredible experience to join the NASA Space Apps challenge for these two days. The main motivation for Iván and me was meeting again together, since we are old friends with a great amount of daily work and not much time to grab a beer. We constitute a small but still diverse team, given our different backgrounds: Luis Miguel is a programmer while Iván is a biotechnologist.
Picking up a challenge was not difficult due to our two big goals: first, using and transforming big data on the Moon seismics; secondly, drawing a precise, 3D globe representation. During these two days, we have learned a lot regarding Moon seismology, as well as some different Python and JavaScript APIs to transform and draw complex data.
Finally, we would like to thank the global NASA international team, the Salamanca organization team at NTT Data, and all of our colleagues we met during the event. We wish the best luck for all the teams in the international event phase!
To infinity and beyond! - Toy Story, Pixar Animation studios.
Space Seismologists
References
Lognonne, P; Gagnepain-Beyneix, J.; Chenet, H. (2003). Earth and Planetary Science Letters 211, 27-44.
Nakamura et al. (1979-2005).
Python programming language: https://www.python.org/
JavaScript: https://www.javascript.com/
threejs JavaScript library: https://threejs.org/
jquery JavaScript library: https://jquery.com/
jquery JavaScript ui library: https://jqueryui.com/
bootstrap JavaScript library: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/3.4/javascript/
ASP.NET CORE MVC: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/mvc/overview?view=aspnetcore-6.0
Tags
#software, #moonquake, #visualization