Early Alert of Landslides APP

High-Level Project Summary

We made an app where the user can see in real time, the probability of landslides in their location. Also, this app have an interface where you can see the history of the landslide on your location or wherever you want. You can also report those incidents with this app, informing currently where are the natural hazards. This app creates alerts in local time so that users know what natural problems are happening in their area.This methodology unifies and shows complex data located in different services, in a easy and intuitive way for the users.It's important because we are saving lifes and natural hazards.

Detailed Project Description

This app uses the data provided by the different NASA services and turns them into useful information so that common users know what natural disasters happened or may happen int heir locality or in some part of the world. On the main screen, you can see your location and that of the municipalities. You can click on each municipality to find out the LPI (Landslide Probability Index) that exists in that area. The LPI is calculated using the average probability that exists in the area. These probabilities are: Precipitation, volcanic activity, seismic activity, hurricanes, slope of the land, soil moisture and land displacement. If you want to know more, you can enter to more information by clicking on the "plus" button that is under the LPI, showing you a detailed report of the aforementioned probabilities. You will be able to delve into the history of the municipality where the natural problems that occurred in that area will be shown in detail. If you still want more information, you can click on the "plus" button again to the right of each component, to go to a map where that information is shown in graphics. Back on the main screen, you can see the local reports that other users have made. You can click on them to see a brief detailed report run on what is happening at that point on the map. You can subscribe to the area if you want to receive an alert everytime someone post a report on your location. When you are not subscribed to a city, the bell icon appears in black. When you are already subscribed to the alerts, the bell icon will appear green. You can enter the My Subscriptions icon from the home screen, to find out more easily, the LPI of each city to which you have subscribed, and also to subscribe to any other that you want. If you want to make a report on a natural problem that is happening in your area, you can enter the reports tab that appears in your municipality. To make a report, you must enter what type of incident is occurring, and where it is on the map. Remember that to make a report you must be registered in the app. This is because we want to avoid future incidents with the reports. To register in the application, you must enter your username, email and password.

The benefits of this application is to be able to show to the common users what problems are occurring in their locality and anywhere in the world. Make the data that few know, are suitable and understandable for everyone. This methodology allows joining different NASA services that contain a lot of information, in one place and in a single click.

We hope to save the lives of many people, and the global economy, because by providing information we can alert people to these accidents that may occur, and governments can be alert to these events.

The tools used for this project were: Word, Figma, Internet, NASA Services and Computers.

Space Agency Data

We use the information provided by the "Sentinel Online" service to show users the possible landslide events.

The probability of precipitation, considers the IMERG service of NASA, providing the data of "Liquid Precipitation Rate" and "Frozen Precipitation Rate". The probability of volcanic activity uses as source the service of NASA Earthdata showing the volcanoes that can erupt. The probability of seismic activity uses the USGS service to provide information on earthquakes that may occur. The probability of hurricanes uses the NASA Earthdata. The probability of land displacement uses CEOS service.

For the history of events over an area, we use the information provided by NASA EarthData and G-Portal.

Hackathon Journey

This experience was nourishing for our knowledge, since it was the first time that we did an international project. We were able to organize ourselves as a team to carry out a solution that could save lives in the future. We learned that there is a lot of information which not many people know exists, or that they don't know how to understand it. With the effort of our entire team, we were able to investigate this information, and make it understandable for any user who wants to know about this topic.

Our team was inspired by this challenge because it showed us a problem that we are currently experiencing, and that takes the lives of many people with it. So we wanted to put our time and knowledge to help the world with this challenge.

We focus on understanding that people do not know the risks that exist today in different areas. Bearing this in mind, we seek to collect as much useful information as possible and then display it in a simple and intuitive way in an application, since the applications are easy to use and we can have them in our pocket whenever we want.

Our setback was the sometimes overly explained data from NASA services, that is why we had to study each given information and investigate its usefulness, in order to know how that can help us.

We want to thank the entire group of mentors who stayed close to help us with this project, as well as the University of Morón, who were providing us with information to know how to do this challenge.

References

NASA Earthdata: https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov

https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search

IMERG: https://gpm.nasa.gov/data/imerg

USGS: https://www.usgs.gov/natural-hazards/landslide-hazards/data-tools

CEOS: https://ceos.org/ourwork/workinggroups/disasters/landslide-pilot/

Figma: https://www.figma.com

G-PORTAL: https://gportal.jaxa.jp/gpr/search?tab=1

JAXA: https://sharaku.eorc.jaxa.jp/GSMaP/

Tags

#LandSlide, #Risk, #SaveLifes, #World, #NASA, #DataOrganization, #Project, #What'sTheRisk

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