High-Level Project Summary
According to the challenge, we endeavoured to address the issues that climate change poses in our daily lives. We, therefore, used the NAAMES mission data by NASA to investigate the causes that affected the North Atlantic Ocean and its surrounding area, thereby, affecting the common inland citizen and their consumer power. It was our final aim to change the narrative from "Saving the Environment" to "Investing in the Environment" through our investment and individual carbon offsetting concept. The uniqueness of this concept is that it is the only investment opportunity in the world wherein we guarantee a return on investment immediately after the user performs a sustainable action.
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Detailed Project Description
The project is called Posdemus, combining the names of the Greek gods of water (Poseidon), food (Demeter) and money (Plutus), the significant components that are affected by climate change and these are the same elements that we humans need in order to survive, hence we came up with the slogan: UNITE, SURVIVE, THRIVE. If only we unite to fight climate change, only then can we survive and finally thrive.
The app starts with the home screen which shows two main components: Food and Water and below that we have a coin representing money. Those buttons can navigate to specific pages within the app wherein we have relevant interactive data according to the title selected (Food/Water/Money). Then we implemented data interpretation and interaction on one of the parent pages with a slider concept that can be viewed to see the changes in the climate data and relevant information will be provided according to the data age. We managed to put in an analysis of how changes in the Atlantic ocean with data from the NAAMES mission affected the cost of lobsters obtained from the north Atlantic (one of the largest producers in the world). Further, we also managed to put an analysis for our user to check the increase in water prices over the years relevant according to the data age in the NAAMES project and correlate all of these factors over a common platform. We have also put in links for other NASA projects (Other 4) wherein similar analysis can be conducted and the same design process can be implemented making it interactive and educational for the user.
Further we have the action button with 4 basic categories for now: Food, water, energy and fuel. As a concept we managed to calculate the average carbon emissions per litre reduced annually which is calculated as soon as the user enters his data in the relevant fields. According to the data entered on that action button screen, relevant numbers will be stored in the profile account for their climate piggy bank. We can add many other parameters which are beneficial with each type of sustainable action within the app.
Then we have the knowledge and link platform wherein we intend to have sustainable social media concept wherein people can share knowledge, interact and share relevant news regarding climate change and sustainability. Also, articles for news and world organisation article links would be provided.
Finally we have the profile section, which has standard user profile data with the climate piggy bank, wherein we have introduced the Posdemus coin that is converted from saved individual saved carbon emission data which can later be used to redeem discounts and offers with our global and local sponsors.
This app has the following major benefits:
1) Changing the general perception from long term affects of climate change to the continually experienced effects faced by the society.
2) Rather than preaching and educating the climate change effect on morality morality grounds, changing the idea towards investing (incentive type of education and actions).
3) Interactive data representation and education.
4) Real life and practical evaluations and analysis relevant to every person between the ages of 17 to 35 - target users.
Space Agency Data
We used the following data:
1) NASA NAAMES Mission Data (for
climate change analysis near the Atlantic ocean)
2) NASA Worldview dataset
3) NASA Earth dataset
These datasets helped us
understand the overlapping parameters and components affecting climate change
and managed to find practical implementations for the common man.
Hackathon Journey
The hackathon journey was extremely thrilling, exciting and challenging. We managed to develop the following skills:
1) Teamwork
2) Innovation
3) Candidness
4) Strategy building
5) Analytical skills
6) Creativity
References
https://science-data.larc.nasa.gov/naames-data/data2015.html
http://misclab.umeoce.maine.edu/floats/float/n0574
https://lobsteranywhere.com/seafood-savvy/best-lobster-prices/
https://ffaw.ca/our-fish-prices/lobster-price-2021/
https://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/dataset_lister.pl?p=34
https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/uso/ds_details/collections/gpmolyxC.html
https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/FIREX-AQ
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772427122000560
https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/?zoom=3&lat=45.58329&lng=78.04688&themeId=DEFAULT-THEME&visualizationUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fservices.sentinel-hub.com%2Fogc%2Fwms%2F2c5dc5f7-4c83-40dd-a520-da2c7221568d&datasetId=S5_AER_AI&fromTime=2018-10-01T00%3A00%3A00.000Z&toTime=2018-10-01T23%3A59%3A59.999Z&layerId=AER_AI_340_AND_380_VISUALIZED&demSource3D=%22MAPZEN%22
https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/aerosols-and-their-relation-to-global-climate-102215345/
https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/FIREX-AQ/FIREXAQ_Analysis_N48_Data_1
https://seabass.gsfc.nasa.gov
https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov
https://eos.org/science-updates/exploring-the-interplay-between-ocean-eddies-and-the-atmosphere
https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/ocean-heat/
https://climate.nasa.gov/interactives/climate-time-machine/
https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2017/10/f38/water_wastewater_escalation_rate_study.pdf
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/phytoplankton-bloom-in-the-north-atlantic/
https://www.epa.gov/watersense/understanding-your-water-bill
https://www-air.larc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/ArcView/naames.2016?ANALYSIS=1#2
https://usclivar.org
https://www.statista.com/statistics/720418/average-monthly-cost-of-water-in-the-us/
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0104325
https://extension.psu.edu/water-conservation-how-much-water-and-money-can-you-save
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Ratio-of-aerosol-scattering-ratio-R-for-different-size-distributions-and-number_fig2_242656089
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