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.

WARRIORS-19

Summary

Contributing to ensure the survival of people, means healthy life. So, creating a new way of telling others about the environmental impact of COVID-19 can help them have more knowledge about the pandemic. The idea is about making an application using strategies of storytelling and games. When the user plugged in it, he gets a question related to COVID-19 and he can know the answer by solving the maze and choosing the right answer. Then a message will appear telling information about the topic.

How We Addressed This Challenge

According to social isolation, a game was designed to reduce the negative effects of the long-term period at homes and to provide the user with the data of the outbreak impacts.

The game analysis:

First, a video that presents details of Covid-19, beginning with Wuhan city to the worldwide spread, is existed. After that, the user starts the first level that discusses one of the environmental impacts like the level of NO2. A massage with a question appears and to find the answer, the user should solve a maze and collect the letters. If the maze is solved, “congratulations” will be sent, and more information on the question and the correct answer will be shown in a story-style. Moreover, the user can check for further data by the links of NASA resources provided at the end of the story.

This process is repeated at each level. Therefore, the game addresses the challenge in the following features: -Demonstrating all the data related to Covid-19 (definition, spread, environmental and economic impacts) in a game that fits all the ages (+10).

-All the impacts of Covid-19 on the environment (e.g., atmosphere, land, ocean, freshwater, ice) are highlighted in a form of questions, answers, and stories.

-Each level of the game considers some attributes (Air Quality, Greenhouse Gas emissions, Deforestation, Changes in water quality) and provides additional NASA sources for extra information.

-Comparisons before and after the outbreak situation are essential, as it determines if observed environmental phenomena are impacts of the Covid- 19 pandemic or not. Therefore, these relevant comparisons are added to the game in a form of images and stories.

-NASA, ESA, and JAXA resources are used.

How We Developed This Project

Our team chose this challenge as it helps people to know the changes caused by COVID-19. As a result, minimal activity from industrial sites, factories, and construction sectors have minimized the risks for toxins to escape, in turn improving air quality. Moreover, the coronavirus crisis is so far triggering the largest ever annual fall in CO2 emissions in 2020, more than during any previous economic crisis. Our future plans to develop the game are providing more levels to facilitate the user to know more information easily. In the first level, we illustrate the rate of No2. In the next levels, we work on easily illustrate the rate of co2. We use a space data agency to illustrate the impact of coronavirus in the game. we designed the game by using flutter. the maze is used in facilitating the user to find the information.

Finally, our team faced many problems as the social distance we overcome this problem by using a zoom meeting and we achieved the first level in the game.

Data & Resources

https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=AURA_NO2_M

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/146741/nitrogen-dioxide-levels-rebound-in-china?fbclid=IwAR0AFK-TmGMTHAc7ks7AGZ_fOi0LsXOGVtk7Ij8fffWz0m4zQCyReujeuTU

https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=AURA_OZONE_M&date=2020-04-01

https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=AURA_NO2_M

https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Tags
#air quality #NO2 #maze #story style #covid-19
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.