Grass Grows

Grass Grows| 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.

Summary

We suggest that it will be possible to find the city turning into ruins by analyzing the vegetation data.

How I Addressed This Challenge

The stay home by COVID-19 is ruining a part of the city. Grass grows on the road and the trees in the park are unmaintained.

How I Developed This Project

To use vegetation data sensed by GCOM-C. We have plotted and compared the LAI (Leaf Area Index) from February to June of 2019 and 2020 in time series. Using python and pandas to analysis. We found that it may be possible to find the city turning into ruins by analyzing the vegetation data.

Project Demo

Presentation PDF

Note:

The presentation title in Japanese is "草生える" (Kusa-haeru).
"草生える" is a famous internet slang in Japan, means "grass grows" and "very funny".

And about Ascii Art (AA) at bottom of top page. You know emoji? AA is the origin of emoji, you know Lascaux's murals? It's like that.

Data & Resources

GCOM-C' data from G-Portal provided by JAXA

Global Judging

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