High-Level Project Summary
The app will be aimed at the general public of all ages living near these risk areas, to anticipate fires, how air quality decreases in the long term by such an event, as well as provide a directory in case of emergency and guidance in case of identifying a fire.We developed the demo of a multiplatform informative application that aims to obtain data from NASA on satellite fire detection to locate wildfires in the United States, how they start, how they spread and their probability of risk depending on their meteorological conditions.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
The cross-platform application is written in Object Pascal with the Delphi IDE and displays a list of active wildfires in the United States and Canada. The list is available in the '''wildfires''' section, where you can view alert announcements and recommendations issued by authorities in real time, as well as fire help sections and fire emergency numbers by geographic location thanks to satellite imagery, ground imagery and participatory community detection will play an important role in solving these problems.
Sharing this information with our community through an interactive application will raise awareness about prevention and care of our forests to reduce the ecological impact of agricultural and forest fires on our planet.
Space Agency Data
We considered the resource provided by Nasa Space Apps from the Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments - Air Quality Experiment (FIREX-AQ) that investigated how wildfires and agricultural fires affect air quality, weather, and climate in the United States.
EOSDIS Worldview To visually explore the past and present of this dynamic planet from a satellite's perspective, we selected satellite fire detection, as NASA satellites are specified to detect fires around the world on a daily basis.
NASA's Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) distributes active fire data in near real time, within 3 hours of satellite observation from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer Imager (MODIS) and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Array (VIIRS). MODIS is a sensor that works with a resolution of one pixel per 1km, while VIIRS improves the spatial resolution to 375m and its nighttime performance is much higher.Página principal de MODIS -- information on the satellite instruments that will be used for the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's firefighting system.
Hackathon Journey
The Suawaka team worked collaboratively and creatively exploiting the skills of each team member to formulate a solution to the TAKE FLIGHT: MAKING THE MOST OF NASA AEROTRANSPORTED DATA challenge focused on the environmental probelmatics in wildfires and agricultural fires around the U.S. that cause danger to entire communities.Our choice was based on the need to get out of our comfort zone and propose solutions with new technologies that, for the most part, we did not know about, but we took on the task of informing about them in order to implement them in favor of our project.We focused mainly on trying to give through technologies not only a solution, but rather a scheme for a possible first reaction to a disaster such as a forest fire, not only leave the solution in an application, but be an extension of this scheme to contribute more to the culture of awareness of such problems in the population.
There was great support among all team members to achieve the expected results, due to the time, roles were given so that at all times we were advancing in the project, every time someone had a question or problem, we all focused on solving it and then continue in the development of the project, agreeing on a mentoring for review and feedback of our progress.
Highlighting the great leadership capacity of Nina Padme Eufracio Rojas, the great research talent of Rodrigo Raúl Ruiz Gutiérrez and the critical thinking of Julio Alejandro Mendoza Bernardo.
All the members were of great importance but we want to make a special acknowledgment to Juan Francisco Quirarte Cota who was our main programmer.
Undoubtedly an incredible experience!
References
- WORLDVIEW NASA_earthdata_Satellite fire detectionworldview.earthdata.nasa.gov.
- American Meteorological Society/45 Beacon Street Boston, MA 02108-369 http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS/
- NASA/FIRMS Fire information for the resource management system Oficial de la NASA: Robert E. Wolfehttps://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:2022-10-02..2022-10-03,2022-10-02;@-23.1,0.0,3z
- Watching Fires from Space -- Science@NASA article: A NASA Earth-observing satellite is watching smoke from wildfires raging across the western United States.
Tags
#incedios #pollution #airquality #airquality #satelite #NASA #environmentalimpact #climatechange #teamsuawaka #leadership #awareness