Earth Saver - Space Apps Challenge

Earth Saver| 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.

Air quality during the Pandemic time

Summary

The hope humans were seeking all these years for cleaner air is here! Thanks to Covid-19 lockdown, but what is next? After the lockdown, the factories will be jump start and might double the effort! Transportation will be back and pollution is not going anywhere unless we think of a long-term solution! What if we create cities where world factories' are placed inside a giant dome that filter the air coming out of it so the pollution is reduced for once and for all.

How I Addressed This Challenge

The domes will be placed in almost all world factories to help to filter the NO2 released by power stations, factories, and transportation

How I Developed This Project

The choice of this challenge is due to my love for our mother earth! If I can share my ideas and try to apply them to reduce the pollution we humans created would be my ultimate life goal. The future generation will live in clean earth.

I used some data from NASA and The European Space Agency to study and notice the change of air quality before and after the Covid-19 lockdown.

I have used no hardware nor software to develop the project except for Photoshop to draw an image of the dome.

Project Demo

https://ibb.co/JKXj3mc

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z59LiyX8e-xmPEzFnwa5qbGIrPTNwqHd/view?usp=sharing

Data & Resources

An article published by NASA on April 13, 2020, as the article explained the “NASA Satellite Data Show 30% Air Pollution Drop over the Northeastern US”.

The (ESA) European Space Agency also published images showing the data from Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite that are showing strong reductions in nitrogen dioxide concentrations over several major cities across Europe – including Paris, Madrid, and Rome.

Global Judging

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