An Integrated Assessment

Your challenge is to integrate various Earth Observation-derived features with available socio-economic data in order to discover or enhance our understanding of COVID-19 impacts.

The Knowledge Tree Project

Summary

The project concerns the creation of a digital interactive platform that aims solving the lack of centered information issue - expressed by the constant focus on health and politics news - about the social-economic impacts arising from coronavirus, felt by those who do not have extensive data analysis knowledge to understand these datas. So, the platform will integrate all trustable datas from NASA, ESA, JAXA, CNES, CSA and other sources from all the aspects that amplifies notion of the pandemic in an accessable and comprehensible way, making possible change of perspective, awareness, empathy and cooperation.

How We Addressed This Challenge

The challenge "An Integrated Assessment" consists in observing the social-economics impacts, evaluating them together with datas provided by NASA, ESA, JAXA, CNES and CSA, allowing us to amplify our analysis in the COVID-19 context. From that proposal, we noticed that the lack of amplifyed informations for individuals to know these impact, made impossible that the measures taken to contain the virus and protect the areas compounding a nation in the part of their government were understood and obeyded. So, during our research, we notice the quantity of knoledge about datas that is needed to understand them and that this fact would difficult the spread of these informations

The digital platform "Knowledge Tree" was a solution found, committing itself to search and provide trusthful information to the population. In this platform, we will have data from sources like NASA, in a more practical and accessible way in what concerns COVID-19  and its various impacts. With this, we intend to provide tools for the population to better understand the real measures of the crisis, understanding the need for their cooperation, allowing them to find and help NGOs around the world and to interact with others who also access the platform.

Therefore, our project aims to increase the population's awareness, changing their behavior and thinking about measures to combat the virus. Consequently, there will be a flattening in the infected curve, that is, a decrease in the number of new cases. And, it will also contribute to future post-pandemic cooperation.

How We Developed This Project

Our team chose this challenge, once it allows us to better understand the relationship between the Covid-19 pandemic and socio-economic impacts. Our approach started as several moments of research and brainstorming that enabled us to comprehend the problem that we would approach and its consequences. By starting from a data analysis, which initially appears in a more theoretical way, we were able to gather the collected data and use it in order to propose a solution consistent with this observation. The data used served to illuminate our research and support our proposal, making it more truthful, in addition to allowing its analysis to indicate the problem we wanted to discuss, that is, the difficulty of simpler means and reliable information compiled so that the understanding of the data and impacts that we observed in our study is equally understandable for those who do not have the skills to interpret the data. Our greatest achievements came from overcoming our barriers. One of the major ones was to found enough time. However, even with this obstacle, we organized ourselves and found it possible to carry out in a coordinated manner all the proposed activities. In addition, our inexperience was used as a springboard to overcome our own limitations, especially intellectual ones. Several times, we found ourselves stationed, however, we were able to find in the partnership a way to be a complete team and a united front, able to deliver a quality and impactful project.

Data & Resources

We used datas from NASA and World Health Organization to locate the incidence of the contaminations cases in the globe and the deaths per population


https://covid19.who.int/


https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/mapping/popest/covid-19/


Besides, we made researches in global news, governments platforms and brazilian estatistics datas to study the social-economis impacts from de pandemic, as well as the respect or not to the measures taken by the worldwide governments


https://www.ibge.gov.br/


https://www.bls.gov/bls/effects-of-covid-19-pandemic-on-employment-and-unemployment-statistics.htm#ATUS

Tags
#MissionConcept #Inspirational #DigitalSolution #AgainstMisinformation #AnIntegratedAssessment #Data #Knowledge #Information #Covid19
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.