ITA - E²MoC| Where There’s a Link, There’s a Way

Where There’s a Link, There’s a Way

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, there has been a proliferation of websites and portals developed to share resources about the topic. Your challenge is to find innovative ways to present and analyze integrated, real-time information about the environmental factors affecting the spread of COVID-19.

COVID-FREE MAPS

Summary

The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the entire world, but unfortunately, Brazil’s position in the rank of cases and deaths has been drastically increasing. Thus, new tools capable of providing useful information are essential to help the country win its fight against COVID-19. Hence, ITA-E2MOC team developed an app that delivers a Risk Index (RI) for its users, who can be the government, scientists, or any citizen. This RI informs which areas are of higher risk of contamination to both governments direct its efforts and users to avoid it. The RI is based on a model developed for Italy, integrating critical data such as weather, air pollution and the number of new COVID-19 cases.

How We Addressed This Challenge

ITA-E2MOC team developed an app that indicates the risk of the users being contaminated in their locations. The information is updated in real time and its coordinates are observed by GPS.

Observations of the Earth prove to be a great resource for creating indices of environmental and population control that justify the advance of the virus to polluted regions and with a high concentration of people. 

The verification updated daily of the contamination risk index of the region proposed by the team is a good indicator to suggest governmental quarantine and lockdown actions. COVID-FREE MAPS helps to decide the allocation of financial resources mainly to areas with a higher concentration of people, such as in Brazilian favelas that have high rates of contamination compared to middle and upper class neighborhoods. 


How We Developed This Project

The team's inspiration came from the growing number of cases in Brazil and the lack of tools to obtain information about the virus. The number of coronavirus fatalities in Brazil has risen by almost 1,000 in a day, making the country's overall death toll the world's fourth highest. Our approach aims to facilitate the interpretation of data by the end user using models developed to monitor the spread of the virus in different countries in real time. The developed app is compatible with Android and IOS devices and the data used is made available by NASA Giovanni and Brasil.IO. COVID-19.

Project Demo

https://youtu.be/vpBo3qZwIQA

Project Code
Data & Resources

NASA Giovanni.

Brasil.IO. COVID-19.

Tags
#earthmaps #pollution #covid19 #populationdensity #hazard #exposure #environment
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.