João de Barro| 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.

Pinwheel

Summary

Our ideia was to analize the local air quality in the pandemic period and compare it to previous years. Our project ideia fits in the challlenge cause we had to use space-based data to document enviromental changes caused by COVID19 and the social responses associated to it. ///We used the WorldWind API to show the graphic geolocation of our data, and intended to cross the data collected from CETESB with the data from Sao Paulo Government about the social isolation rates of the cities, to generate charts using PlotlyJS to show the relation between them.The API for this project was made on the Rails web framework hosted on heroku, known for it's speed and versatility for prototyping solutio

How We Addressed This Challenge

https://pinwheel-nasa.co

How We Developed This Project

The API for this project was made on the Rails web framework hosted on heroku, known for it's speed and versatility for prototyping solutions. As quick proof of concept, we made available for the web portal a list of available stations, monthly reports on weather quality and social distancing indexing. The PoC was a success, but for a MVP or finished product we would need much more time for sanitizing data and make the presenting of information better

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NASA CEBESP

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