Nurture the Nature

Universal Event | Capacity Building Resources Gateway

Awards & Nominations

Nurture the Nature has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!

Global Finalist

INDICATORS OF THE PLANET EARTH

High-Level Project Summary

It's a user friendly portal/gateway which is bundled with multi Earth observations in which the visualizations are categorized in form of Earth Indicators, Natural Hazards, Environmental Threats, Ecosystem Health and Monitoring Climate.This web app is loaded with 18 Earth Indicators, 18 Geo Maps, 12 Earth Engine Apps, 18 Infographic Data Analysis in Tableau followed by 09 Quizzes based on various climate change factors.This app provides an opportunity to explore multi EO at one place resulting into focused study and creates awareness as well.Severe climate is leading to unavoidable disasters in future hence it's very important to understand and take actions towards saving the planet.

Link to Final Project

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/7ea2ca77e22144ff9da18a7af20259e6

Link to Project "Demo"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9krcN5oYAU

Detailed Project Description

What did you develop?

We as a team "Nurture the Nature" has selected the challenge "Capacity Building Resources Gateway" and thought of to create a "Multi Mission Earth Observation" web app named as “Indicators of the Planet Earth” by using various datasets merged into a single application with focus on 360 degree visualization on various aspects of Earth observations.

The main objective is to create a user-friendly virtual gateway of capacity-building resources that will help professionals of all levels and disciplines to find the training they need to apply EO.

To achieve our objective, we created a user friendly portal/gateway which is bundled with multi Earth observations in which the visualizations are categorized in form of Earth Indicators, Natural Hazards, Environmental Threats, Ecosystem Health & Monitoring Climate.

This web app is loaded with 18 Earth Indicators, 18 Geo Maps, 12 Earth Engine Apps, 18 Infographic Data Analysis in Tableau followed by 09 Quizzes based on various climate change factors.

This interactive portal is for users/community those who want to search, view , explore, analyse and share the tools and resources from one common platform instead of training themselves from various other websites.

How does it solve the challenge?

The project is equipped with all factors in lines with the challenge “Capacity Building Resources Gateway” as prescribed in challenge guide.

Key Features & Benefits of App:

A) Developed an online portal/gateway in which various 18 Earth observations are enlisted alongwith detailed data analysis in Tableau supported by instant visualization in ARCGIS Geo maps.

B) A set of 12 Earth Engine apps are provided with ideology of “Explore it by Yourself”.

C) It’s a user friendly gateway in which navigation is developed in much simplified manner so that user’s may find it convenient while navigating through various earth observations.

D) Creates opportunity to explore the multi EO at one place resulting into focused study & trainings & time saviour as well.

E) Eye catchy climate dashboard addresses the climate severity in a very interactive manner.

F) Visualization & Infographic learning method is most productive and it’s been put in use.

G) A very strong tool to create awareness about climatic conditions and demands attention.

H) An interactive 09 quiz set based on climate factors is being tagged to project in order to engage the public/audience and offers an opportunity to test their knowledge with scores achieved.

Why is it important?

Many people think climate change mainly means warmer temperatures. But temperature rise is only the beginning of the story. Because the Earth is a system, where everything is connected, changes in one area can influence changes in all others.

The consequences of climate change now include, among others, intense droughts, water scarcity, severe fires, rising sea levels, flooding, melting polar ice, catastrophic storms and declining biodiversity.

Hence there is an utmost need to create awareness amongst our current & future generations to understand the severity of climate change and it’s impact.

Time heals most of the things, hence timely steps towards saving the planet earth may heal the Earth too. The idea of creation of this web app is a small effort with the vision of larger impact by creating awareness amongst all and also demands corrective action/measures.

What does it do?

Knowing is half the battle. This indigenous app is able to depict true picture of various Earth Observation models in near to real time duly supported by the databases published in public domain by NASA/JAXA/ESA/ESRI.

In this web app Disasters/Hazards can be visualized in form of Geo maps alongwith respective data information/analysis fetched by various API’s from GIS community. Some of the Earth indicators are also equipped with forecasted information as well, in order to ensure public safety.

App’s Schema & Design:

A) Apps homepage is infused with 18 various Earth Indicators synced with GIS servers providing Earth observations in realtime.

B) A collection of 12 Earth Observer Apps developed in Earth Engine by using various EO datasets available in public domain. Open source code from https://github.com/samapriya/ee-appshot

C) Project Linked with 18 Geo maps based on multi mission EO.

D) Detailed infographic analysis based on historical, current and forecasted data is derived in 18 Tableau apps which are also linked with 18 Earth Indicators.

E) A interactive collection of 09 quizzes shared directly from NASA’S Global Climate Change portal to engage the users by testing their knowledge gained from this portal.

F) Shared network resources for user's exploration: (Learning by doing)

Shared Data from Living Atlas of the World, ESRI, 2° INSTITUTE, NASA & NOAA.

How does it work?

This web app is able to fetch the results based on user inputs by playing around the intuitive tabs and buttons and portray the results of climate severity in a very simplified manner. Not only climate severity, this portal also share the methods and steps which may turn saviour for the planet Earth.

This web app enables users to study & train themselves by referring any of the EO based on their likings and area of interest. Objective is to know the hazards/ severity first and then call for corrective action/measures.

Feedback/Suggestions

Project is equipped with communication tools, such as Online chatbot and feedback form wherein any user can connect with author, provide any suggestion or feedback.

Our aim will be to action on user's feedback/suggestion and to provide or incorporate further training resource based on Earth Observations as desired from user.

What do you hope to achieve?

We hope our small effort towards the creation of this app will draw the attention & may encourage students and science enthusiastics to focus more on our Planet Earth and contribute every possible effort with a view to safeguard the same in best possible manner.

Human footprint in many aspects is causing damage to our environment. Hence we thought of to promote the ideology of share and care. Present and historical climatic conditions are shared in form of web app so that people may explore and pledge to reduce the factors those who all are hazardous to Earth.

Since it’s a collective responsibility hence let’s join our hands together to preserve what we have been gifted by nature as there is no planet B.

What tools, coding languages, hardware, software did you use to develop your project?

1) API's has been put in use to fetch real time information from ARCGIS web servers.

2) GIS mapping feature has been used for Geodata based output on ARCGIS ONLINE platform supported by ESRI.

3)This project is developed on ARCGIS Experience Builder platform supported by ESRI.

4) Google Earth Engine is used to create Earth Observer Apps. Open Source codes are being put in use to derive customized results. Codes reference from https://github.com/samapriya/ee-appshot

5) Detailed data analysis done with the help of Tableau. Few of the vizzes are directly embedded to project from viz collection of Tableau Public.

6) Laptop HP Probook 440 G5 with processor INTEL(R) Core(TM) i7-8550U CPU @1.80GHz used.

7) NARAKEET, CLIDEO.COM & YOU TUBE is used for creation of project's demo video of 30 seconds.

Various Earth Observation datasets are explored and also active use of NASA softwares has been taken into consideration such as

1) NASA Worldwind

2) FIRMS

3) Worldview

4) Earthdata

5) Earth Observatory

Global Collaborators Resources used in Project:

Space Agency Data

Space Agency Data used:

NASA, NOAA, ESRI, JAXA, USGS, NCEI, ESA, NSIDC,

Data type - Climate, Natural Hazards, Disasters, Public Safety, Bio Diversity etc.

How the data is being put in use?

Project was started with ideology to make a dashboard of climate indicators, for which a detailed study and data surfing/scraping is done on various external websites & NASA DAAC (Distributed Active Archive Centers).

Relevant data is fetched in form of feature layers by using API's and apparently synced with ARCGIS ONLINE geo maps. Further the same data is linked with climate Indicators which keeps on updating by itself with ARCGIS web servers.

Once the mapping is done, thought of to infuse some data analytics to respective indicators tabs for which i had to use Tableau. Infographics are best way of presentation that's why it has been put in use to make it more interesting for the users. Motto is learning with facts and fun.

There is a huge range of filters curated on respective Tableau apps which provides the feasibility to drill down the data to it's unit level based on the user inputs.

How it inspired your project?

Environment and climate are one of my favorite topics for exploration. Somehow the challenge of "Capacity Building Resources" was correlating with my Project's topic and area of interest. Hence i got inspiration to participate and addressed the solution towards aforesaid challenge.

Hackathon Journey

Space Apps Experience:

Since last 2 years participating in Space Apps Annual hackathon ant it's been a great journey so far. Platform like this creates an opportunity to rise above the horizon. Last year was awarded Honorable Mention by NASA for the project named "God's Eye". Since then pouring my interest towards improvising my research skills.

Learnings: How to use NASA data into the projects? Ideas to develop utilities as per my interest.

What inspired your team to choose this challenge?

It is very evident that the frequency of disasters have been increasing Year on year. The historical data speaks about it. Worrisome factor is that, if this rate of frequency is continued then very soon we will face worst climatic conditions such as running out of drinking water & fossil fuels, increase in sea levels, Loss of vegetation, Unbearable Temperatures, Agricultural lands in Drought, Floods & many more hazards.

These environmental threats are really forcing us to think about it and insist to do something to avoid these disasters as much as we can. Hence we chose the challenge “Capacity Building Resources Gateway”, as this really suits to our aim, objective and ideology.

What was your approach to develop this project?

There are many apps in market who tell you about current weather and climate, but usually we need to refer multi apps for various information. Our vision was to develop an app based on climate which should be sufficient enough within itself in terms of content. That's the reason a good 18 various earth observations are developed in app which makes this portal unique and user freindly.

How did your team resolve setbacks and challenges?

Initially i was facing troubles to share the ARCGIS data on cloud, as ESRI doesn't allow you to share the support files on any cloud, but lastly found the solution and shared the support files by creating a group within ARCGIS which enables the sharing mode.

Is there anyone you would like to thank & why?

I would like to thank God for giving me the strength to do research and solve global challenges. A big thank you to Space Apps community & Team for offering me an opportunity to participate in this world's largest Global Hackathon.