High-Level Project Summary
We developed an app called 'PHOENIX' which is inspired from the resources from NASA and is created to give information to people about the current air quality and causes for it. We have incorporated our own creative idea of informing people about the safety in their surroundings they are in to ensure poor air quality or wildfires don't affect their health. This information/health sections allows us to beware of our surroundings and prevent the deterioration of our ecosystem and our own body.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
PHOENIX provides us a detailed overview and information on the status and contribution of wildfires in air quality to assess the reasons for death rate, health problems, global warming and suffocating environment. This information allows us to reflect on our decisions and help us to create a better ecosystem to live in. Our app also allows you to go through the data related to FIREX-AQ and methods used to gather this information. We created a 'clinical section' that allows patients with conditions like asthma and lung conditions/other health conditions that bad air quality would worsen. Our app also Our goal is to use and track a GPS location of our users to notify them whether they are in a safe situation in terms of air quality and update if there is a wildfire or they are in a place prone to wildfire leading to bad air conditions and prevent them from more serious complications. Our app is different because PHOENIX provides a simple interface for quickly checking current and forecast air quality information for planning daily activities and protecting your health. Our app differs from others because our app provides you with current time readings of satellite monitored air quality index.
NOTE: Please note that the clinical section can only be accessed through physical devices such as phones or tablets (not laptops or monitors).-Please also note that the link given will create a copy that you could edit and preview, but not the actual project. This is because the app creator we used requires membership without which we can't make it fully open as does app store require payment to upload there.
Space Agency Data
We have used data coming specifically from NASA’s resources itself. We started our research from https://csl.noaa.gov/projects/firex-aq/ which can be found in th resources section under example resources for our challenge. We also extracted most of our text data and numerical/graph data from this PDF https://csl.noaa.gov/projects/firex-aq/whitepaper.pdf . For our demo video, we referred to this video from last year’s NASA space apps challenge found on there 2021 page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUqa9pwxS5M , this video definitely helped us understand how to format our own demo video for our project. Our very own clinical section is inspired from this data https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/how-nasa-is-helping-the-world-breathe-more-easily/ this data features how NASA has a goal for people to breathe better air, and our clinical section helps people prevent from going into areas where air quality is comparatively poor so prevent them from having any health issues. Not to mention we added a Air Quality/Wildfires Written and Data Analytics section, which primarily includes NASA sources, and secondary sources such as Business Insider and Statista.com.
Hackathon Journey
Our experience was a unique yet learning one. It opened our minds to explore different ideas regarding the topic. We enjoyed the experience thoroughly. It was a thrilling one. We chose to do this topic as we believed it best suited our interest and skills. This topic also requires immediate attention because air quality is essential for breathing and creating a sustainable environment in the future. We had our fair share of setbacks, like a team member quitting, and glitches in the app. Nevertheless, we always got through them as team. We would like to thank you all for the opportunity you have given us and our ICT teacher for giving us better clarity on our app. Overall, I think the experience was a very exciting journey.
Team members: Keiah, Aysana, Sharon, Zanetta
References
https://csl.noaa.gov/projects/firex-aq/whitepaper.pdf = our mains data
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUqa9pwxS5M = our base idea for our demo video
https://csl.noaa.gov/projects/firex-aq/ = our starting point for research
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/how-nasa-is-helping-the-world-breathe-more-easily/ = our inspiration for our clinical section
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjepNXqlL_6AhVCgP0HHXNxBFEQjBB6BAgOEAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.meta-chart.com%2Fpie&usg=AOvVaw3rGTuwb51JU3ILfZVKx8R- = what we used to make our pie charts and our graphs
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#FIREX-AQ #OurClinicalSection #Breathetheairyoudeserve #PHOENIX