SDGs and COVID-19

This challenge invites you to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by looking at the current and ongoing change in the monitoring indicators of the UN SDGs using Earth observation/remote sensing and global Earth system model-derived analysis products.

The Brightest Day

Summary

Our project is called "The Brightest Day". It is a web page where we organized some information about how is the impact that Covid-19 has had at local, national and global scale and the main objectives of the 15th SDG, Life on Land.Using international news, Earth observation, etc. We can observe the impact that Covid-19 has had on different ecosystems, in different countries of the world.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Our project focuses in the compendium of information that let us perceive the effects of the pandemic on the 15th SDG by means of: International news, Satellital maps and proposing a brand new indicator.

Being a web page, people can easily acces to the content from any device, so it resolves really well the availability of information. You can access with this link: 

                                                                  http://theredblueblur.com/

 

How We Developed This Project

What inspired your team to choose this challenge?

We decide to participate in thhis challenge because we weren't  awared of the Sustainable Development Goals and we decided to accept this challenge to learn about them.

What was your approach to developing this project? 

We wanted to make the information accessible to everyone, also we focused in collecting information related to the Covid-19 on the 15th SDG, since it was scattered.

How did you use space agency data in your project?

To visualize the impact of the Covid-19 on the world.

What tools, coding languages, hardware, software did you use to develop your project?

Web page editor, data plotter on map and information and communication technology.

What problems and achievements did your team have?

Problems:

- We struggled with the identification of current data.

Achievements:

- Greater understanding of Sustainable Development Goals.

- We acknowledged the power of frienship

Project Demo

https://youtu.be/1QJVHjf6CwI

Tags
#COVID-19, #SDG, #Web, #World, #Environment, #WeLoveYouElonMusk
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.