High-Level Project Summary
We have obtained information from FIREX and CONAE to collect data about the fires in the US and in Córdoba (where we live). To meet the objective, we designed a multiplatform online video game with a progress system to be able to educate the population about forest fires, in which a series of questions will be asked as the game progresses, all with justification based on the information collected. All application development is hosted on a database and server, both completely free services, provided by GCP and Firebase.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
Save Your Land
Obtaining data from FIREX and CONAE, the behavior of air, soil and life in general in the face of a forest fire can be approximated. The only difference in the measurements is that in Argentina, more specifically in Córdoba, the data is measured in very long time intervals and the information that is extracted about the fires is not as much as that extracted with FIREX in the US.
To meet the objective (use the information from one of the 5 NASA planes to create an educational application), a video game has been designed, which consists of a progress system in which the player solves certain problems that are along the way to ensure that our friends, the animals, can remain in their habitats without suffering the consequences of forest fires. To advance the level, different problems will occur along the way, whose solution is to answer questions correctly. Every certain amount of levels, you will advance from zone. All the information extracted at the beginning of the investigation will be the basis for the foundation of all the questions and answers of the game.
During the course of time, different alerts will occur randomly that will also be solved in the same way as the level advances. If the questions are answered incorrectly, the air quality decreases and the player stays at the level they were before, and after this, they are shown a short video or an explanatory text showing them the error they made when answering, and thus giving feedback to the player to learn and thus motivate them to continue participating in order to level up.
The application will be a web development, with an intuitive and friendly interface design. Thinking about the public to which it is directed, characters that are native animals in danger of extinction will be used, from which the user can learn their habitat, ecosystem, relationship with other animals, through the history of the game and explanatory videos that They serve to recover air quality.
As a projection of the application, the creation of mini-games that require player actions to add visual attraction and thus produce a pleasant gaming experience is thought of.
Everything related to the costs of carrying out the development and hosting of the application were reduced to the point of having a hosting service (both in the database and in the upload of the project) totally free.
The application will have a responsive design to be able to adapt to any type of device without any inconvenience, adding versatility and universality.
All the questions, their respective answers, images of the new characters and other necessary files will be extracted from the database, and in this case we chose GCP (Google Cloud Platform), totally free. All this information will reach the web application through queries to the database (CRUD). The Backend of the application will be developed with the Java language, with the help of Spring Boot. Its Frontend will be programmed in the basic web development languages (HTML, CSS, JS) and with the help of Bootstrap and Angular to speed up the time it takes to create the entire graphical interface (more fluid transitions, greater variety of icons, code shortening, etc.).
The web application will be working thanks to free Firebase hosting.
Space Agency Data
Data extracted from FIREX: area consumed by forest fires, consequences on the body, air pollution, etc, in the USA.
Data extracted from CONAE: area consumed by forest fires, consequences on the organism, air pollution, etc, in Cordoba, province of Argentina.
Hackathon Journey
Our experience with Space Apps was a learning process, in which we connected with our colleagues to work as a united group, the distribution of tasks was complex and the short work time was challenging. However we can assure that it was a complete experience and that it allowed us to advance as a group towards new ways of working, managing to finish the project in record time was a rewarding and incredible experience. We want to thank NASA for offering this experience, the student center of the utn for bringing us this proposal and the municipality of San Francisco for offering us the resources and a space like the Tecnoteca to work.
References
Webgrafía:
[online] https://csl.noaa.gov/projects/firex-aq/science/motivation.html [visited on 10/01/2022]
[online] https://csl.noaa.gov/projects/firex-aq/science/goals.html [visited on 10/01/2022]
[online] https://csl.noaa.gov/projects/firex-aq/resources/ [visited on 10/01/2022]
[online] https://asdc.larc.nasa.gov/project/FIREX-AQ [visited on 10/01/2022]
[online] https://unciencia.unc.edu.ar/medioambiente/detectan-altos-niveles-de-contaminacion-en-el-aire-por-los-incendios/ [visited on 10/01/2022]
[online] https://www.eldebate.com.ar/quemas-en-casi-20-anos-los-incendios-danaron-una-superficie-equivalente-a-12-ciudades-de-cordoba/ [visited on 10/01/2022]
[online] https://unciencia.unc.edu.ar/medioambiente/el-instituto-gulich-cartografio-los-incendios-que-afectaron-las-sierras-de-cordoba-entre-1987-y-2018/#una-mirada-satelital-para-captar-lo-imperceptible [visited on 10/01/2022]
[online] https://unciencia.unc.edu.ar/medioambiente/detectan-altos-niveles-de-contaminacion-en-el-aire-por-los-incendios/ [visited on 10/01/2022]
Tags
#software #game #games #wildfire #fire #ecology #savelifes #FIREX #NOAA #CONAE #InstitutoGulich #UNC #science #Córdoba #Cordoba #EEUU