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.

COVID-Earth

Summary

The current situation is a pity but should be utilized in all possible ways. One of these ways -the way we chose- is using data to make use of it in the future and be able to know how the human's daily activities affect the earth and what activities should be modified to keep our planet healthy. COVID-19's lockdown has showed humanity how dangerous can it be. This lockdown is a real opportunity to understand how we affect the earth.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Our project talks about noticing the human influence in the world before and after the coronavirus, noting harmful activities that harm the earth and trying to reduce them to make the Earth a more stable place

How We Developed This Project

We have developed our project to simplify and deal with it easily and record all virulent activities after the end of that crisis that we are now facing to try to reduce it and we have created a simple website (https://5ed263e6ab223.site123.me/) to make easy for everyone to understand the latest renovations in the situation and Receive opinions and suggestions on our website. took advantage of the space agency data in our project to improve the presentation of information to facilitate the reader. The problems we encountered were the difficulty of gathering information and data, but the problem was solved over time when researching different sources and locations.

Project Demo

Website demo: https://5ed263e6ab223.site123.me/

Video: https://youtu.be/bRHA9Yk7QnE

Data & Resources

Gray, E. (2020). NASA reports arctic ozone hit record low in March. NASA. Retrieved 31 May 2020, from https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/nasa-reports-arctic-stratospheric-ozone-depletion-hit-record-low-in-march.

Jacobs, P., & Blumberg, S. (2020). Data shows 30 percent drop in air pollution over northeast U.S.. NASA. Retrieved 31 May 2020, from https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/drop-in-air-pollution-over-northeast.

Ozone monitoring instrument (OMI) / Aura NO2 tropospheric column density - registry of open data on AWS. (2020). Retrieved 31 May 2020, from https://registry.opendata.aws/omi-no2-nasa/.

Patel, K. (2020). Earth matters - How the coronavirus is (and is not) affecting the environment. Retrieved 28 May 2020, from https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2020/03/05/how-the-coronavirus-is-and-is-not-affecting-the-environment/?fbclid=IwAR0Wm_Aiv7jjgD7ZYMPq3X4X8m7y86MENVM_Qo2HBtpZyLIbFYvFhuKmM_0.

Stevens, J., & Patel, K. (2020). Airborne nitrogen dioxide plummets over China. Retrieved 31 May 2020, from https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/146362/airborne-nitrogen-dioxide-plummets-over-china.

Stevens, J., & Patel, K. (2020). Airborne particle levels plummet in northern India. Retrieved 31 May 2020, from https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/146596/airborne-particle-levels-plummet-in-northern-india?fbclid=IwAR0b8xvptfPfmaxqWkWKrLA_g02cws_2cybx5whPwSnz0WVLC9O83TMg5lU.

Vegetation Index [NDVI] (1 month - Terra/MODIS) | NASA. (2020). Retrieved 29 May 2020, from https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=MOD_NDVI_M&fbclid=IwAR1RQCVY-RhBSmLrTque50Q9WERX6xYWOPOiKAECocRwdy2KhDaoKHqLjow.

Tags
#air quality,#Ozone matters, #NO2 ratio, #Eco COVID-19 #Healthy Plants,
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.