kNOx down COVID-19| 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.

kNOx Down COVID-19

Summary

Starting with KeiHanShin area (Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe) of Japan, we analyze the time series of NO2 data to figure out the impact of COVID-19 on our atmospheric environment.

How I Addressed This Challenge

Starting with very local site, KeiHanShin area (Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe), we propose the possible methods to analyse NO2 column density data as a response for social reaction to COVID-19.

How I Developed This Project


Data acquired via Giovannni with the following parameters:

  • Title:,"Time Series, Area-Averaged of NO2 Total Column (30% Cloud Screened) daily 0.25 deg. [OMI ()"
  • User Start Date:,2010-01-01T00:00:00Z
  • User End Date:,2020-05-27T23:59:59Z
  • Data Bounding Box:,"135.125,34.625,135.875,35.125"
  • URL to Reproduce Results:,"https://giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/#service=ArAvTs&starttime=2010-01-01T00:00:00Z&endtime=2020-05-27T23:59:59Z&bbox=134.9121,34.4641,136.0986,35.2991&data=OMNO2d_003_ColumnAmountNO2CloudScreened&portal=GIOVANNI&format=json"

Data acquired via Giovanni is then processed with Python (code available at the following section) to found some anomaly significantly appeared as a result of COVID-19 social impacts. 


Project Demo

Our slide on SlideShare to be checked https://www.slideshare.net/secret/hFYmoW1qawQ8eq

Project Code
Data & Resources

[Image] Mozu Tombs, Japan; NASA ID: PIA23460; Secondary Creator Credit:NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team; https://images.nasa.gov/details-PIA23460; (used for team photo)

[data] Giovanni; NASA; https://giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/; (mainly used for our analysis)

Tags
#Nitrogen_Dioxide #Air_Quality
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.