High-Level Project Summary
Round Table is the solution to the problem, of climate change. We have developed an app that provides the learning material to the user and makes them aware of the issues we are facing to solve this problem.We think to solve this problem from the bottom to the top because if people get educated about climate change even a small initiative can make a great change one day. In this app, we have a short video section in which a user can upload and others can applaud him or her which will lead to an increase in the points that the user can convert to vouchers, discount coupons, etc. to make the users more interested in the app we have added a badge system which will be given to the user.
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Detailed Project Description
ROUND TABLE
TAKE FLIGHT: MAKING THE MOST OF NASA’S AIRBORNE DATA
A visualization of NASA'S FIREX-AQ
Mission's Data.
Aim of this project:
To measure the trace gas and aerosol emission caused by wildfires and prescribed fires in great detail.
Finding the change in climate temperature by
modeling the FIREX-AQ' s Data with least error and Future Prediction.
Creating an interactive application to build communities, where people get the information about their nearby air quality and post what they are doing to heal it.
Over large, remote regions, the distribution of BC, O₃ and CH₄ by using Data Visualization and Exploratory Data Analysis.
Insights From Data:
Through visualizing the data provided to us, we can estimate the increase in the concentration of 0₃, CH₄, CH₃CL and other discharged molecules in ppm/ppb. The emissions of compounds we must be most concerned about are shown through plots in this slide.
The increase in the temperature of the Earth will be at least 1.5°C considering the best case scenario and 2.8°C if no changes are made to current policies and exploitation of resources. We gathered data about increasing temperatures over the past half century and trained a model that predicts future temperature with 95% confidence.
Most of the wildfires in the US impacts the global climate as smoke and other aerosol compounds spread throughout the globe due to winds and concentration differences.
Concentration of pollutants are much higher than the sustainable concentration
Global temperature is rising at an alarming rate.
US has exponentially more wildfire events than any other region of the world.
Air temperature in the stratosphere is directly proportional to the altitude.
Solution
Creating an application through which awareness can be spread about the Air Quality(AQ) of the region people reside in and a developing a way to better understand the data through visualization.
Make it interactive, no person will use it without incentive or engagement.
Roundtable provides the foundation tools for building strong communities that help spread the word about climate change and make positive impacts in the ecosystem.
Space Agency Data
The official space agency data that was used to study the challenges faced to solve this issue was data from the FIREX-AQ campaign dataset, which is the Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX-AQ) provided comprehensive observations to investigate the impact on air quality and climate from wildfires and agricultural fires across the continental United States. The objective of FIREX-AQ was to provide measurements of trace gas and aerosol emissions for wildfires and prescribed fires, relate them to fuel and fire conditions at the point of emission, characterize the conditions relating to plume rise, follow plumes downwind to understand chemical transformation and air quality impacts, and assess the efficacy of satellite detections for estimating the emissions from sampled fires. It was used to identify adverse impacts of human caused fires on the ecosystem and its relation to other natural phenomena, and also to identify the concentration of major contributors to climate change to draw comparisons with the expected and regular concentration of the compounds in the environment.
Hackathon Journey
We had an amazing Space Apps experience. We learned the value of teamwork and persistence by participating in this 36-hour long hackathon where we had to deal with an extremely difficult problem and get insights out of a huge dataset which was very often inconsistent. To start with raw data and to reach to a solution that can help make a difference in the society and ecosystem that we are a part of was a great journey that helped us learn a lot of things which this margin is too narrow to contain. Among all the diverse challenges we had at our disposal, we chose to go with 'Take Flight', which revolves around the impact of anthropologic fires on the climate of the world. We all agreed that Climate Change was a very critical problem to solve and needed a creative approach as the conventional approaches had flaws that we aren't able to make up for yet, so we chose to solve the problem bottom-up, with the ordinary person as the target! We think that we greatly resolved the direct flaws of the current approaches of tackling climate change and were successful in achieving our goal to a great extent. We resolved setbacks and challenges with productive discussions and thought. Overall, it was a great experience to work together towards a solution to a very difficult problem.
References
FIREX-AQ : Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX-AQ) provided comprehensive observations to investigate the impact on air quality and climate from wildfires and agricultural fires across the continental United States. : NASA
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#datavisualization #climate #humanity #app #ai #ml