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Worldwide Troubles

High-Level Project Summary

Our group is making a website with interactable buttons. The home page will have a world map with clickable countries and regions. Upon clicking the countries or regions, the website will lead to a page discussing the many problems of that area. We are developing a user-friendly blog website to help spread awareness on the topic of earth observations. We are attempting to develop this website and share it with the world to help educate people on environmental events around the world.

Link to Final Project

https://nou3619.wixsite.com/worldwide-troubles

Link to Project "Demo"

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fO5tgKuBgUNbdVyx5oAB7g97TE1UoYQH/view?usp=sharing

Detailed Project Description

Our project is a interactable map. When a region is clicked, it will bring the user to a page displaying all the different problems of the clicked region. The page will give the user information of all the different problems like: natural disasters, land management issues, the impacts of climate change, and other environmental issues.

Space Agency Data

Nasa info for how they apply EO (Earth Observations) - NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) mission set launch for June 2022, with the purpose of investigating what affects temperature, whether being dust, soil, silt or clay. With the conclusion that, “Darker, iron-rich dust absorbs the Sun’s heat and warms the surrounding air, while lighter-colored particles, rich in clay, do the opposite” (“NASA's EMIT Will Map Tiny Dust Particles to Study Big Climate Impacts”).

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-emit-will-map-tiny-dust-particles-to-study-big-climate-impacts

South Pacific - In the Oceania region is where most of the most extreme wildfires occur. So extreme to the point that firefighters from other countries have to be sent over to help fight the fires.

https://eodashboard.org/story?id=australian-bushfires&page=1

The two space agency pieces of data that we used were incredibly detailed and helped inform and enrich our project. It helped inspire us to find and add more relevant and important information to the website.

Hackathon Journey

Our group enjoyed the entire Hackathon journey, we had successes and failures. It was an endless path of trial and error until we got to the end product that we desired- but slightly modified. There were many things like setbacks like not being able to make super cool transitions from page to page but it’s fine as we settled for stiffer ones. Other than that one issue we did fine without any other setbacks. We’d all like to thank our families and ACI for their support throughout this entire project.