Aura Explorer| Quiet Planet

Quiet Planet

The COVID-19 outbreak and the resulting social distancing recommendations and related restrictions have led to numerous short-term changes in economic and social activity around the world, all of which may have impacts on our environment. Your challenge is to use space-based data to document the local to global environmental changes caused by COVID-19 and the associated societal responses.

NASA Aura Explorer

Summary

An interactive 3D Experience to create awareness for the usefulness of the NASA Aura Satellite and the resulting NO2 Datasets for gauging COVID-19 impacts worldwide.

How I Addressed This Challenge

Let the user explore the available datasets and changes in NO2 levels pre- and post Covid-19 by flying the Aura Satellite across a 3D Globe and collecting Data with the OMI Sensor.

How I Developed This Project

I was inspired by the tireless work of the A-Train Satellites for atmospheric research and wanted to propagate their role in gauging environmental impacts. Unity 3D and Blender were used for the interactive demo.

I would like to highlight the incredible 3D Model (https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/models) repository from NASA from which I could get 3D Assets for the satellite. A multitude of spacecraft is available there.

I also used the Blue Marble image from NASA as a texture for the 3D Globe. 

Informations from the NASA Aura Website (https://aura.gsfc.nasa.gov/) were also useful. 

Project Demo
Data & Resources

AURA 3D Model from https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/models repository

Blue Marble image from https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/images/73580/january-blue-marble-next-generation-w-topography-and-bathymetry

Informations from the NASA Aura Website (https://aura.gsfc.nasa.gov/)

Tags
#Aura #NO2 #3D #Unity #Unity3D #Blender #NASA #Game
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.