Eletronáuticos

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High-Level Project Summary

The project developed is a platform that was intended to work as a tool for amateur radio wave researchers, in which they could visualize the data collected in graphic images and obtain information about the Earth's ionosphere. Thus, in view of the challenge of approaching and promoting the propagation of the data obtained by these scientists, the Eletronáuticos team sought to develop a product in the most intuitive way possible, in order to encourage its use by researchers.The project was initially developed to be a software, but later it was changed to a web application. Thus, HTML, CSS and Python were used for the project. In addition, as an IDE, Colab and Visual Studio Code were used.

Link to Final Project

https://github.com/PriscilaFalcao/hackathon-nasa

Link to Project "Demo"

https://www.canva.com/design/DAFN79x35XE/TpZLxO99o0KSk1adTQ3S5w/edit?utm_content=DAFN79x35XE&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton

Detailed Project Description

The project focuses on simplicity and user experience. Seeking to get the information that amateur scientists want, the platform somehow tries to graphically translate the data generated by radio wave receivers. In this way, it is expected to help in the development of research in the areas of heliophysics and the ionosphere, in order to encourage the participation of enthusiasts. For this, we made a website using HTML and CSS languages for better optimization of the site, while in the backend we used the Python programming language, mainly with the Pyomnidata libraries, used to obtain the data from OMNIweb, and Seaborn, used to convert the data for graphics.

Space Agency Data

We used the data available on the official SpaceApps website, which led to the OMNI Web Plus website. There, we obtained a dataset of records of radio waves, which contributes to the verification of how our platform would work, in addition to allowing us to have a view of how these data are usually collected, both in format, size and what processes are necessary for their treatment.

Hackathon Journey

Our experience with Space Apps was quite challenging, yet productive. We've learned a lot about advanced physics, radio waves, and several other topics. At the start, we decided we wanted a real challenge, so we ended up picking an advanced one.

Talking about the solution, at eh start we found ourselves intrigued on how the amateur radio waves and ISS affected the ionosphere and we wanted to search more abroad the project. Unfortunately, after seeing the dataset we would be working with, we realized it would be a little bit more challenging than we were expecting, and we also had to ask our mentors for help. The problem with this is that our location got blocked, and we had to participate in the hackaton remotely, making it more difficult our contact with the mentors.

With all that said, we'd like to thank our mentors for all the help they provided, and that even though we were at the worst circumstances for the project, they still managed to give us a great experience.