High-Level Project Summary
We developed an app (Surreal) that displays the correlation between the influx of natural disasters due to climate change and employment statistics throughout the United States. We hope users of our app will realize how climate change is bringing about more natural disasters which impact the financial wellness of themselves and their families. This is important because it brings the issue of climate change to a more personal light and shows the public how climate change will continue to negatively impact everyone in the United States if it is not taken care of. We can use the data to predict natural disasters as well as show trends in previous years.
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
What exactly does it do?
Uses NASA airborne datasets combined with data sets provided by other government agencies in order to find correlations between weather data and economic data, such as poverty rates, salary rates, ect...
How does it work?
All repositories include README files with instructions on how to work each code section.
Expo is the app client used to host the app that can then be used to build an IOS or Android image.
What benefits does it have?
Provide users with future natural disaster predictions by region
Show users the correlation between natural disasters and economical health by region
What do we hope to achieve?
With access to more data sources from NASA's airborne collectors, we could expand our app to offer worldwide access as well as branch out into different aspects of public well-being affected by climate change such as mental health in relation to temperature, humidity, etc.
Software used
React-native
Figma
Excel
Jupyter
Google Cloud
apisauce
Flask
Coding languages
Python
Javascript
Space Agency Data
The data from the following three sources were studied and used to develop a focused idea of how the Earth's climate is changing. In addition to that, it was cross-referenced with an outside source to create a correlation between the rates of climate change and its comprehensive effects on society.
Wildfires from FIREX-AQ
Water Temperature and Turbidity from Delta-X
Rainfall from OLYMPEX
Snowfall from OLYMPEX
Hackathon Journey
Our experience was exciting, informative, and challenging. We learned how to parse through large quantities of data to find interesting correlations, improved our teamwork skills, and developed new skills working with our peers. Every member of our team was or currently is a student at Wichita State University located in the air capital of the world where we have been exposed to the wonders of the aircraft industry firsthand. We have been inspired by our time here and were excited to see how NASA used aircraft to collect data around the world in the hopes of helping the public understand the world around them and pushing us to take the right steps in mitigating climate change altogether. Our main goal was to find a correlation between the data to other statistics that affected the well-being of the majority of the public so that they would be more incentivized to take action and understand the issue climate change poses to everyone. In the beginning, we struggled to focus our application on a specific solution, but through open conversation and candidness, we were able to compromise and come up with a plan that satisfied everyone. There was also a large amount of open data from NASA to analyze so we effectively split up and tackled different aspects of the challenge to save time. Any confusion throughout the process was resolved through active communication. We would like to thank the local team leads for volunteering their valuable time this weekend to assist each of the groups and answer any and all questions we had about the challenge.
References
County Business Patterns from United States Census Bureau.
Tags
#airborne #weather #forecast #climatechange #app #educate