This project addresses this challenge as it provides an easily accessible and understandable form of the changes of human activity on our earth as a result of COVID-19. This project also analyses this data and addresses the different ways COVID-19 was responded by each country, as well as their impact on human activity. In this way, we also provided a general trend of the successful and unsuccessful methods of responding to COVID-19 in order to improve the responses for future pandemics.
Our team used the Google Sites software to design our website and present our information in an easy to read fashion. We used space agency data, specifically NASA data, for our night light images, as well as some of the nitrogen dioxide emission data. However, our team had issues finding nitrogen dioxide information for every country. We did find information for each continent, which allowed for us to visualize the change of the nitrogen dioxide levels on a larger scale.
We generally used NASA databases such as the NASA Worldview light imagery map and AURA OMI average tropospheric NO2 maps, along with government websites and some major news sources.