Light the Path

The COVID-19 pandemic initiated changes in human population movements and activities around the world. Your challenge is to use Earth observations to explore how human activity and regional land-based human movement patterns may have shifted in response to COVID-19.

COVID- 19 Positioning System (CPS)

Summary

Our project is an app which will be like a guide for people who want to protect themselves from Covid- 19. The app works by taking the latest images of the earth taken by the satellites and processing them by artificial intelligence. Using the artificial intelligence, the app determines how busy the cities are from the night lights. Then the app tells the user the concentrations of people in every city in his country and warns him when walking in places with big concentrations of people.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Our solution will compare the photos taken before the covid-19 spreading to the photos after the spreading. Our solution also enables to the user to see the places that is not affected or less affected.

How We Developed This Project

we started by writing the Algorithm that we will take For making the app, we divided them into three main categories:

1-Reading, which represents the data that the app will receive from the user.

2-Processing, in this step the app will start to process the user input about the place and take the latest updated images provided from NASA's satellites and compare it to the standard images of the place by image processing (using AI) and decide if the place is crowded with the danger of COVID-19 spreading or not.

3-Writing, in this step the app prints the result of the image processing and show it to the user.

Project Demo

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1yEeM-ly17wzZelVjmZxO6JcAorDJfxzZ

Data & Resources

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/earth_at_night.pdf

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/146481/nighttime-images-capture-change-in-china

https://geoawesomeness.com/nighttime-satellite-images-of-china-reflect-covid-19-lockdown-impact/

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/x-ponder/en/

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-probes-environment-covid-19-impacts-possible-links

https://gpm.nasa.gov/science/multi-satellite-algorithms

Tags
#artificial_intelligence
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.