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.

Eco-Vida

Summary

In our project we tried to prove that human beings are causing the climatical changes on the planet. We also related the quarantine caused by COVID-19 with the reduction of polluting gases emission based on the disponibilized data. The future consequences of our imprudent behavior is also shown in the project. At last we proposed a lot of solutions, small and big ones, so we can have flexibility while choosing where to start.

How We Addressed This Challenge

The project fits in the chosen challenge (Quiet Planet) because we are talking about the effect that global warming causes on Earth. And we relate this with the consequence of quarantine when it comes to the redution of levels of air polution.


How We Developed This Project

We got inspired with this challenge because it is something that we need to change right now on this planet if we want to live in it for many more years. Our approach was to think about this consequence, global warming, and run after the main problems that cause it to be able to solve it. We used the space agency data to compare data before and after the quarantine, and also to prove that the average global temperature is increasing through the years. We did not have nothing planned because it was our first time in a hackathon, so we only use what we already knew, also did a lot of research to be able to talk about the matter, and did the artwork to put into the slide show. We had problem because our challenge was really hard to do a prototype, we only could give good ideas to do it, but it was a good start. With this project we could absorve a lot of knowledge about our planet and how the human being is destroying it. We learned that we have to do something to change this situation, because if we do not, who will? We learned the most important thing, that together we can do anything.

Project Demo

Click here to see our pitch.

Click here to see a slide about our project.

Data & Resources

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/world-of-change/global-temperatures

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2020/03/Nitrogen_dioxide_emissions_over_China

Tags
#QuietPlanet #GlobalWarming #COVID-19 #GreenhouseEffect
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.