High-Level Project Summary
Did you know that less than 1% of the world's water is drinkable and many people do not know that they could have springs of potable water very close to them? That is why we started the "Atenea" project, a powerful website where people can see trough different real-time data, charts, graphics and pictures the quality of the water. The website shows all the information of the water routes. We will take advantage of reconnaissance flights and airborne data from the different NASA campaigns to analyze the quality of the water and how it can be affected by climate changes and the mixture of nearby polluted waters.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
With ATENEA people can see trough different real-time data, charts, graphics and pictures the quality of the water of different regions of Tarcoles River, wich is the most polluted basin in Central America.
We designed a website to analyze and share the information, taking advantage of the methodologies applied in NASA's reconnaissance flights and airborne campaigns to analyze the quality of the water and how it can be affected by climate changes and the mixture of nearby polluted waters, this is done by our in-situ buoy and drone equipped with AI to analyze waste and polluntants in the river.
Our buoy is designed to obtain data autonomously, taking advantage of the river water-flow, it uses IoT and Big Data to bring real-time information related to the current contamination levels of an specific point in Tarcoles River (using our drone imagery), to track and control the pollution.
The website shows all the information of the water routes (shows where the water starts and where it ends, the turbidity, pH and in case it becomes contaminated, shows where, how and when it is most likely to mix with other polluted water streams). We use Python and the Rasterio library to manage, analyze and use the information and the data obtained, as shown in the Delta-X workshops.
The data is also linked to our remote station in the river, using IoT and Big Data to provide real-time information.
Space Agency Data
The data available was huge, but we wanted to solve an issue in our country, the Delta-X data inspired our project to take advantage of airborne of how to use airborne data and in-situ techniques to acquire data and monitor the current levels of contamination of the Tarcoles river.
The data sources are the following:
https://colab.research.google.com/github/achri19/DeltaXWorkshop_Field/blob/main/notebooks_V2/Module5_Water_Quality.ipynb#scrollTo=JdEU425CXGza
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KQIQPNowinFYQGd7SvpUE2sHPS0ALueV?usp=sharing
https://github.com/ornldaac/deltax_workshop_2022
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO2yB4LGNlWq9KE_7Er7EIYDF6Yj9MOV2
https://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/dataset_lister.pl?p=41
https://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/programs/research-analysis
Hackathon Journey
1) Our experience at Space Apss was incredible, there was a lot of information that we didn't know that was available, which changed our way of thinking, something that we considered inaccessible for being from NASA and today we were able to focus this data to design a solution for an specific issue.
2) We learned about how to use NASA resources and data in problem solving, in our case we focused on water quality, and how to use it at a local level, such as the data taken by NASA overflights collected in DELTA-X.
3) The team analyzed the different challenges, and we were interested in how NASA performs overflights in the Mississippi River basin, which lead us to create a solution based on a device similar to a buoy that, with different sensors, takes some variables of the river basin Tarcoles in Costa Rica, to analyze the quality of the water, as well as carry out overflights with drones to take images that can detect contaminating agents in the basin, this in order to link the data in a public access web page and monitor the quality of the water in the basin.
4) The approach was based on how to use the data that NASA acquires with the overflights it carries out in the Mississippi river basin, to think of a solution to a problem in Costa Rica, such as the Tarcoles river basin, obtaining data from the quality of the water and carrying out overflights with drones, which is cheaper and in real time.
5) The team resolved the setbacks by assigning a work role to each participant, in such a way that some were carrying out the design of the 3D prototype, others the part of creating the web page, and programming codes in Python, as well as the use of NASA data in solving the problem.
6) We'd to show our appreciation to Fundación Edunamica for participating in this challenge, Space Apps Pura Vida, and our families for always supporting us in these challenges.
References
Fichot, C.G., J. Harringmeyer, and M. Weiser. 2022. Delta-X: In Situ Water Quality Indicators across MRD, LA, USA, 2021. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/2080
Fichot, C.G., N. Ghosh, J. Harringmeyer, and M. Weiser. 2022. Delta-X: Total Suspended Solids Concentration across MRD, LA, USA, 2021. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/2075
Tags
#water #costarica #atenea #puravida #sanjose