Our challenge was to find innovative ways to present and analyze integrated, real-time information about the environmental factors affecting the spread of COVID-19 so we decided to create a website which collects all the information about Covid-19 pandemic that could help people and the policy-makers to be aware of everything happening in the world at once so we used Nasa offered resources and we searched more to try to collect all the information we need then we create our website and start to demonstrate this information in it in an appropriate organization and sequence and this website is easy for using as it does not need a guide to use like many other sites which have many complicated steps to get information from them. We tried to find solutions for all the points related to this challenge as at first, we tried to demonstrate the information simply as this is the most common problem that faces many people and for sure the data that we collected is comprehensible with all the people. The first thing that we looked for was the COVID-19 cases as this interests many people and it is very important for policy-makers to help them make their decisions. We found a link between the human health and the environment as when this pandemic starts the human activities decreased as the people are quarantined and this has a great impact on the environment as the concentration of NO2 emissions reduced at a high percentage in a short time which has positive impacts on the human health. In our project, we showed the relationship between the environmental observations and the pandemic spread as we found that many climate factors affect the spread of this pandemic such as temperature and relative humidity and we showed this in detail on our website.
We were bringing an idea before the challenges came down, and after the challenges came down, we found it more related to the idea and we chose this challenge because we believe that the people are aware of this virus, the most important thing they can present to the country and also so that they have enough knowledge so that they can avoid the spread of this virus. As for how we used space agency data in our project, we used most of the offered resources in collecting information about the pandemic to help us in creating our website. We made a clear integration between our project and the offered data. At first we used the WHO information about the confirmed and revealed cases to represent our website’s first page and we will not find more trusted link that could provide us with this information than the WHO, then we used JAXA/ESA/NASA’s data ingested in Euro data cube and other links to know the environmental conditions before and after the pandemic in order to try to find a link between the human health and the environment and we found out that the satellites could help a lot in this point as for example the sentinel-5p give us information about the NO2 emissions and the difference in NO2 concentrations was great between the before and after the pandemic so we could find that the environment have a big role in keeping the human health as the pollution reduced so the human health for sure is better also we used these resources in concluding the impacts of the environment on the spread of this pandemic as we conclude that the temperature and humidity affects this pandemic so we put all this data in our website in an organization and sequence to be comfortable for the user to know and understand these data in a simple way. for the website hte team used several coding language such as jQuery, .js ,css and bootsrap these coding languages supported us to build this website. there are problems faced the team while constructing and designing the website which was all about coding. learning those coding language and constructing a simple and creative website that is easy to know latest information about Covid-19 was more than just an achievement for the team.
this is a link for a video demonstrates our webiste: https://youtu.be/vR_wP-yP5QU
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