High-Level Project Summary
What if you could be a part of the historic EOM (Earth Observation Missions) and visualize the mission experience from anywhere you want? Blue-moji is bringing you a concept app to help you learn about the EOM in an interactive and engaging manner which is accessible to all. App digests and present the dense history of NASA’s Earth observation missions, the complicated terminologies and the associated technical specifications in an unique way. Now learning about the mission is just a message away! Get into the simulated mission chat section and chat directly with the mission satellite to know more about the mission. Delight yourself with the experience of interactive AR based visualization
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Detailed Project Description
How does it work?
Technical consideration for simulated chat experience:
The data regarding each NASA’s EOM can be collected from various resources. And classified/ stored into different sections such as mission launch details, mission goals, the types of instruments that they use, agency partners and project scientists. The data then can be processed to train a chat engine using AI chat services like Microsoft Azure. This will power the Chat experience of the app.
let us consider the mission: Nimbus 1. The user will open a simulated chat with the Nimbus1 satellite. The Nimbus1 will greet the user & ask what information the user wants to know about the mission. The user will ask different questions from the options available which the Nimbus1 will answer interactively. The user will experience the information in a user-friendly manner.
If the user asks a question that the Nimbus1 doesn’t have an answer to then that question can be answered through a subject matter expert from NASA. This will help establish a relationship with NASA and the user will take an active interest in learning more about the mission.
The next section is the interactive AR visualization-
The user will open the visualization of the mission satellite e.g. Nimbus1. The app will first detect the plane in the environment. The AR model of the earth & the related mission satellite will be opened. The user will get to see the visualization through the lens of the Nimbus1. This will help the user to understand why the data collection is important from the perspective of understanding more about the earth. The user can also click pictures through the satellite lens or view the iconic images captured by the satellite during the mission. The images can be shared on social media which will create more awareness & generate interest for the EOM
What benefits does it have?
As the coming generations are becoming more & more tech-savvy, their way of content consumption is also changing. They no longer want to consume only textual & visual information. Now they want more of an immersive and interactive experience that they can share & collaborate with others. Our solution collects and presents the otherwise uninteresting data of the earth observation mission in a way which the users can feel more relatable. Thus increasing mass adaptation & awareness about the SPACE in general
Subsequently for the NASA, they will just need to populate the details of the future missions which will get automatically updated on the app's data base. Thus making it relevant & useful.
What do you hope to achieve?
With this app, the users will be made more aware of the EOM & its relative importance through interactive mediums. This will generate more curiosity & they will see the earth differently than before. The users will become more sensitive about the environment and take special interest in spreading awareness about the history of NASA’s earth observation mission
Space Agency Data
The data of Nimbus1 & Jason3 are collected through these links:
- https://eospso.nasa.gov/missions/jason-3
- https://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/jason-3/summary/
- https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/jason-3
- https://eospso.nasa.gov/missions/nimbus-1
- https://science.nasa.gov/science-pink/s3fs-public/atoms/files/earth-fleet-06-2021.pdf
- https://eospso.nasa.gov/files/mission_profile.pdf
The inspiration is taken from:
- https://earthobservations.org/geo_sdgs.php
- https://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/earth-system-observatory?utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=NASAEarth&utm_campaign=NASASocial&linkId=158500528
- https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/earth/#/vitalsign?vitalsign=ozone&altid=0&animating=f&start=&end=
- https://www.treehugger.com/earth-observing-satellites-4869022
Hackathon Journey
It was an incredible experience. We learned about the 'overview effect'. The awe that the astronauts experience when viewing earth from space. We wanted to bring the same overview effect & portray the awesomeness of the eyes on the earth- i.e. earth observation mission in an interesting manner.
We got to learn a lot about NASA's different earth observation mission. This made us curious & we hope to continue to learn more about it
References
- https://eospso.nasa.gov/missions/jason-3
- https://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/jason-3/summary/
- https://www.eoportal.org/satellite-missions/jason-3
- https://eospso.nasa.gov/missions/nimbus-1
- https://science.nasa.gov/science-pink/s3fs-public/atoms/files/earth-fleet-06-2021.pdf
- https://eospso.nasa.gov/files/mission_profile.pdf
Tags
#eyesonearth #AR #chatexperience #interactive #app #accessible #informative #social