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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.

Research into conequences of covid curfew on the environment in Rio coast region

Summary

For this challange I conducted a small research into conequences of covid curfew in Rio coast region. I sampled data from satallite sensors that make observations of ocean surface. Then I compared this year data to data from last year observations to eleminate seasonal trend changes and figure out what impact did the covid curfew have on environment of this particular area.

How I Addressed This Challenge

Rio coast region has one of the most famous beaches in the world:  Capacabana and Ipanema. After Rio Gov. Wilson Witzel declared a  city-wide state of emergency on March 17 they became deserted. The  change in human behavior is clearly defined. The purpose of this  research is to track how these changes translate into satallite ocean  data and more importantly - estimate it's effect.

How I Developed This Project

I care about the environment.I am especially concerned  with ocean pollution.  I want people to stop ignoring the issue.+ I worked on a similar problem as my master thesis.

Project Demo

https://github.com/Darayavaus/spaceapp-covid-19/blob/master/OceanData.ipynb

Project Code
Data & Resources

In this research, Aqua MODIS sensor data was used (such as chlorophyll  concentration, aerosol optical thickness and reflectance on different  wave length) https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/l3/

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