A New Perspective

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, protected areas and other forms of wilderness areas (e.g., arboretums, beaches, parks, marine monuments) have been closed worldwide. Your challenge is to lead the effort to examine any potential impacts of reduced human traffic in such local protected natural environments.

Divergent

Summary

We are addressing the seabeaches, local parks, and the Sundarbans of Bangladesh through our solution. We have built a website- "Divergent", where we have updated all the resources and information we collected. This website will help people who are residing in the mentioned areas to have an up to date idea about the nature around them and how much the air around them is polluted.

How We Addressed This Challenge

The COVID-19 is taking a toll on the global population as well as nature. Bangladesh has 44,608 confirmed cases and 610 confirmed deaths. It is a densely populated country with rigorous human activity in every place all day. Since the lockdown from March 18, 2020, the human mobility trend for places like public beaches, national parks, public gardens, etc. has a 3% drop from baseline.

How We Developed This Project

Using the Neustar code for this NASA Space Apps COVID-19 Challenge. We bought a domain with this code from Porkbun and from there we used Weebly website builder for developing our Website.

Using the NASA's site, we collected satellite images of the globe taken before and during the “lockdown”.  Then we compared the light density of the images to find the changes in human traffic. We made predictions based on the data collected using the resources to predict the impact of change in human traffic on the sites of national parks, sea beaches, and the forests.

Our Website Link of Our Solution  - https://nasasac19cdivergent.us/our-solution.html

Future plans –

To improve the usage of our website, we would like to research the concentration of CO in the atmosphere related to human mobility. We would like to introduce a graphical representation on our website, Divergent, to show the daily concentration levels of CO with collected data from satellite imaging relating to human mobility on a weekly basis. This website would then really be helpful to people residing in the areas, to understand the air pollution level surrounding the national parks, Cox’s Bazar sea beach, and Sundarbans areas.

We can use Geo Cam Share one of the NASA's Softwares, it helps disaster responders get information faster by sharing maps, photos, and other data using their mobile devices . If we put camera devices in those wilderness areas and collect useful data we can reduce the bad impact of COVID-19 Pandemic.  From our website we can lively check those cameras and give feedback for solution to whom it may concern. Then we can collect data from local researchers here in our website with help of form which given in our website. 

Tags
#Soil #Traditional_mammals_returns #arboretums #beaches #parks #marine_monuments #Wildlife #tourist_spot #longest_beach #Wilderness #New_Perspective #IUB #CRC #CIET
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.