Awards & Nominations
Gunma Empire has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!
Global Nominee
Freyre - Data Visualization App
High-Level Project Summary
We have created a application, Freyre, for the visualization of precipitation as well as surface temperature data from NASA's Giovanni resource, as well as flooding data from other sources.Currently, accessing said data involves several cumbersome steps for the user,including finding, downloading, and plotting, and having to do this for each data set.We have compiled about a years worth of data into an application,where users can view changes over time on satellite images, through an easy-to-use interface,by simply dragging a slider.By making the data easily accessible - and interpretable, we believe that we have solution to educate the public about Earth’s changing climate.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
Our project will make NASA's data easier to use, and Giovanni has access to a lot of open data.
These data sets can be used for research and commercial activities,
but the UI is unintuitive and cumbersome to use.
By visualizing and providing the necessary data in advance,
we can make NASA's data easier to use.
We downloaded data from Giovanni,
for monthly averages of surface temperature and precipitation for the year 2021.
From there, we developed a system to display the data for each month over time.
We used an open source GIS software called QGIS to process the data.
We compiled the data from Giovanni, and made it possible to display the data on any time axis.
In this case, we only had data for the year 2021, but by expanding this data,
we can view data for various years on a time axis.
This will make it easier to understand the ongoing changes to the global environment.
In the future, we will web-host this and develop it as a web application that anyone can use.
The following tools have been utilized in this project:
QGIS
GitHub
Space Agency Data
We used surface temperature and precipitation data from Giovanni provided by NASA.
It was quite easy to use, with previews to verify the data before downloading,
but it was not possible to download multiple data sets at once.
Since wasn't possible to view the data in time series,
and thus unsuitable for spatiotemporal analysis.
We decided to develop a tool to solve this problem.
Hackathon Journey
Through the Space Apps Challenge, we were able to learn in depth about teamwork.
It was very difficult to produce output with members who had never met each other,
and who were from differing cultural and professional backgrounds.
We needed to get to know each other in order to choose a theme,
so that we could bring out the best of each individual's personality and skillset.
We tried to create an environment where everyone could actively speak up, and challenge each others ideas.
Even though we had a diverse group of members,
we were able to achieve more than we had initially imagined,
and we were able to make new friends on the way.
What we learned through this challenge will be important future assets for us all.
References
https://www.kaigai-shobo.jp/files/worldoffire/20220201_01NaturalDisasters2021.pdf
https://jp.reuters.com/article/storm-ida-northeast-idJPKBN2FY0JY
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/byline/morisayaka/20201205-00210981
https://floodlist.com/america/usa/floods-alabama-october-2021
https://floodlist.com/america/usa/floods-alabama-september-2021
Tags
#web-application, #climate, #OLYMPEX, #rainfall, #maps, #QIGS, #flooding