High-Level Project Summary
We developed an interactive graphical display and dot game. This solves the challenge because it creates awareness for the danger of rising water levels due to climate change in the Mississippi Delta area by displaying data taken by NASA researchers to introduce the problem and a dot game to familiarize. As a result we believe this is important because it helps educate on the adverse effects of climate change.
Link to Final Project
Link to Project "Demo"
Detailed Project Description
On the main page our project displays the area that the Data was taken in 2015 and 2016 from google maps. When the “Data” button is clicked it then shows the data we were able to plot from taking the difference between 2016 and 2015 measurements at the same longitude and latitudes. Below is an iframe with our powerpoint demo because we thought it would be useful in conveying our intentions to any users and provide extra information to the casual passerby. On the subpages we have 5 different randomly generated dot maps as a sort of game where the closer the user clicks to the center of the red dots signifying rising water levels and increased risk the higher their score. We hope that this is beneficial in providing users with an introduction and familiarization activity to the problem. We used python ezgraphics for the scatter plots, photoshop to layer them onto the google maps images. We also used notepad to write our website html, js, and css code. Lastly, we used excel to access the data from Nasa’s Delta X Project files.
Space Agency Data
Our team utilized data from the Pre-Delta-X missions to study the water levels in the area around the Wax Lake Outlet channel. We were able to derive data from two datasets that utilized LiDAR laser scanning technology and AirSWOT radar technology respectively. The datasets from the Delta-X missions revolve around answering the questions behind the resilience and vulnerabilities of river deltas, therefore the two datasets we obtained take note of the water levels in two different years. The data of the changes were extracted and then implemented into a map image on our team project’s website.
Hackathon Journey
Our Spaces Apps experience is best described as a learning experience. Going into this project none of us knew how to use HTML, JavaScript, or CSS, nor had we ever imported data from an excel sheet in our in class python projects, nor had any of us set up a web domain. All of these came as challenges to us but as a team we were able to learn a lot in these areas helping each other out whenever someone figured out something new. Our team was inspired to choose this challenge because it worked with displaying data on a website and we thought we could learn a lot while not getting too frustrated and unmotivated in the process due to lack of prior knowledge. We jumped into the deep end with what we were least familiar with by first setting up the website itself with html and then from there we had a template to add in all the other features made in python, javascript, and powerpoint. In the end, I am really proud of the way our team resolved setbacks because for the most challenges presented themselves as a result of lack of knowledge and as such can be very frustrating to deal with. So, I would like to thank my fellow team members for sticking it through until the end despite our code and efforts looking very bleak at times and for their grit and spirit that allowed us to keep going and keep learning.
References
Software: Notepad, Pycharm, Excel, Powerpoint, Photoshop, Paint, VS Code
Denbina, M.W., M. Simard, and J. Lai. 2021. Pre-Delta-X: Lidar-derived Water Level Profiles in the Wax Lake Outlet, LA, USA, 2016. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1820
Denbina, M.W., M. Simard, E. Rodriguez, X. Wu, and C. Michailovsky. 2021. Pre-Delta-X: L3 AirSWOT-derived Water Level Profiles, Wax Lake Outlet, LA, USA, 2015. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1819
Google maps. (n.d.). Google Maps. https://www.google.com/maps/@29.5655621,-91.4455143,11z
w3schools HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Tutorials
w3 Docs JavaScript Coordinates Tutorial
Assorted Uncopyrighted Google Images (spaceship, moon, space background) to make team photo/favicon)
Research Citations:
The Author Victoria Spina . “The Impacts of Sedimentation.” VERTEX, 18 May 2022, https://vertexeng.com/insights/the-impacts-of-sedimentation/#:~:text=Although%20the%20sedimentation%20process%20is,quality%2C%20and%20increased%20flooding%20potential.
Somrack, Tom. “Why Do Farmers Care about Climate Change? Rising Sea Levels.” National Farmers Union, 7 Dec. 2016, https://nfu.org/2016/08/29/why-do-farmers-care-about-climate-change-rising-sea-levels/#:~:text=salt%20water%20intrusions.-,Threats%20from%20sea%20level%20rise%20also%20include%20the%20loss%20of,of%20agriculture%20around%20these%20areas.
“Sea-Level Rise in the Mississippi Delta, LA, USA: Global Warming Effects.” Sea-Level Rise in the Mississippi Delta, LA, USA Global Warming Effects, https://www.climatehotmap.org/global-warming-locations/mississippi-delta-la-usa.html.
SeaLevelRise.org. “Mississippi's Sea Level Is Rising.” Sea Level Rise, https://sealevelrise.org/states/mississippi/#:~:text=What's%20at%20Risk%20in%20Mississippi,submerging%20wetlands%20and%20dry%20land.
Tags
#flight #water #delta #deltaX