GREEN-UP| Food for Thought

Food for Thought

Your challenge is to consider the journey of food to your plate, determine how disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic are affecting the food supply locally and globally, and propose solutions to address these issues.

GREEN-UP

Summary

Developing a green culture community by implementing vertical farming in urban spaces. These spaces will be managed by the same groups of people who inhabit these homes. People will be trained in agriculture and robotics so that they can manage orchards, supporting the Stay at Home initiative and providing a means of distraction to people suffering from anxiety or another disorder. We will work together with the information from NASA to be able to generate data to carry out analyzes of natural elements and to be able to analyze predictions to improve crops.

How We Addressed This Challenge

To solve the challenge, we will go far beyond the supply chain affected by Covid-19. By creating a green culture, we will provide the community with the necessary tools to growing their own vegetables. By implementing interactive training, people will be taught how to manage orchards and, at the same time, basic principles for managing electronics. Using ARSET (Applying Remote Sensing Training), users will be trained in the use of NASA information such as climate, temperatures, soil, and so on. This improves the process of automation of crops giving better results. In addition to not worrying about the supply chain, we are the great boosters of creating a green culture that changes the mindset of people and organizations, adding an added value by not limiting ages or previous knowledge regarding the agricultural process.

How We Developed This Project

Feeding should always be a topic that should be treated with high priority. Motivating people to develop further is another issue that must be promoted to improve our society. If we mix both concepts we obtain as a result the approach of the project, that is, to be able to solve a big problem by developing a sustainable culture, strengthened with information from NASA satellites, and learning how to use it by making use of ARSET.

SketchUp was used for modeling elements. The electronics were managed using the Fritzing software. The system is based on Arduino and low energy sensors will be used for the census. Cloud tools like AWS will be used for information interaction at NASA.

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Data & Resources

Vegetable Production System (Veggie) (Veggie). (2020, January 28). Retrieved May 30, 2020, from https://techport.nasa.gov/view/10498

Wheeler, R. M. (2015, August). Growing Food for Space and Earth: NASA’s Contributions to Vertical Agriculture. Conference presented at the 2015 ASHS Annual Conference, New Orleans, United States. Retrieved from https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20150015991.pdf

Al-Kodmany, K. The Vertical Farm: A Review of Developments and Implications for the Vertical City. Buildings 2018, 8, 24.

Susannah Pearce and Nathan Perrin. (n.d.). Applied Remote Sensing Training | ARSET. Retrieved May 31, 2020, from https://arset.gsfc.nasa.gov/

[Video file]. (2020, May 28). NASA Video. In YouTube. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/user/NASAgovVideo/playlists?view=50&sort=dd&shelf_id=7


Tags
#stayinhome, #agroculture, #verticalfarming, #ARSET, #greenculture, #robotics, #training, #research
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.