High-Level Project Summary
NASA’s Delta-X mission is to study the Mississippi river delta and detect its changes. The app was developed by Figma app builder and UX/UI design to make it more attractive and catchier, based on NASA’s dataset and other scientific articles to understand more about Delta-X’s mission main topics and their relation to climate change and to educate the public in a simple way without advanced scientific terms. The app would be updated by Delta-X's mission with new observations and datasets to keep people up to date about what happens in the environment around them, and what actions they are required to do to keep the Earth a cleaner and healthier place for them and their upcoming generations.
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Detailed Project Description
Our mission came to build an app to educate the public about the Delta-X mission and make people aware of NASA’s research that is made to predict the changes that would happen due to the causes of climate change. Due to the updated technologies, building an app was a simple way to educate the public as the app was developed using UX/UI designs to make it more attractive and catchier besides using Figma app builder. The app was built based on Delta-X’s mission dataset and NASA’s information about the main topics which is water level, vegetation and total suspended solids, with also relies on other resources such as Stanford scientific article and science direct to be able to relate these topics with the climate change and provide solutions that could be done in our daily life to help reduce the effects of climate change. Relating this mission to Egypt is an important feature that concerned us to benefit from it locally and show that NASA’s research is useful and important all over the planet.
The app is divided into seven sections. Home is the first section telling the mission of the Delta-X airborne campaign. The second, third and fourth sections are the main topics of Delta-X’s mission which are water levels, vegetation and total suspended solids, explaining their meaning and how climate change affected them and the data provided by Delta-X mission and its observations, which is built in question-and-answer form to make it easier to understand and more organized. In addition to figures and graphs that are easy explained below them. The fifth section is called in Egypt which shows how to benefit from this information and datasets in our country and its impact on it. The sixth section is a call for action which is providing solutions that could be taken in daily life and are easy for people to follow to decrease climate change effects. The last section is about us which held information about the team contacts. The app would be updated by Delta-X’s mission with new observations and new datasets to keep people up to date about what happens in the environment around them, and what actions they are required to do to keep the Earth a cleaner and healthier place for them and their upcoming generations.
Space Agency Data
NASA’s resources were our main references, NASA’s Delta-X mission dataset was collected in 2016 and 2022, by comparing the data and knowing the equipment and their measuring parameters, we were able to understand the datasets and then get to simplify them without using advanced scientific terms and charts to make easier to the public, Although we used some figures in the app that were easy to understand. NASA also provided us with some useful articles about the main topics which were water level, Total suspended solid and vegetation. Besides using other open sources such as scientific articles from Standford, science direct and national geographic to know the relation between them and climate change, which was helpful in how climate change affects all the planet and benefits them locally.
Hackathon Journey
Being on the hackathon was a very interesting experience that taught us a lot about teamwork where we learnt how to collaborate and respect each other’s opinions and ideas, also get to know new people and communicate with them and share our experiences. Educating the public and sharing simplified knowledge was what caught our eye to choose this challenge especially when it’s related to climate change that caused natural disasters, and having a way to help in reducing it was a chance for us. The app was developed by Figma app builder and UX/UI design to make it more attractive and catchier, based on NASA’s dataset and other scientific articles to understand more about Delta-X’s mission main topics and their relation to climate change and to educate the public simply without advanced scientific terms. We resolve setbacks and challenges by brainstorming and sharing our knowledge and searching for solutions. We would like to thank our mentor for helping us and giving us very useful information.
References
Total suspended solid. Total Suspended Solid - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics. (n.d.). Retrieved October 1, 2022, from https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/total-suspended-solid
Delta-x. ORNL DAAC. (n.d.). Retrieved October 1, 2022, from https://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/dataset_lister.pl?p=41
River water level - queen mary university of London. (n.d.). Retrieved October 1, 2022, from https://www.qmul.ac.uk/chesswatch/media/chesswatch/River-water-level-leaflet.pdf
How vegetation alters climate. Stanford Earth. (n.d.). Retrieved October 1, 2022, from https://earth.stanford.edu/news/how-vegetation-alters-climate#:~:text=Vegetation%20can%20affect%20climate%20and,leads%20to%20potential%20cloud%20formation.
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#water #climate change #NASA #Delta-X