Awards & Nominations
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Global Nominee
Sea Hunters
High-Level Project Summary
The idea of the project depends on dividing the coasts into areas, which carry a barcode. Each has a dedicated vehicle to scan the area with the same barcode. The boat is linked to the EOS satellite. This boat is controlled by an Internet of Things system, which means that it operates without a driver and receives instructions from a satellite. These boats are also equipped with cameras to monitor violations on beaches and oil ships and are equipped with night vision cameras to monitor illegal immigration and protect the area. Several vehicles are connected to one beacon for continuous maintenance and follow-up. Vehicles are provided with dolphin pingers, which aim to preserve aquatic life
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Detailed Project Description
Our project aims to provide a practical way to reduce the spread of plastic and waste on the coasts in cooperation with the countries located on those coasts. The seas and oceans cover about 71% of the total surface area of the globe. This area is not evenly distributed between the northern and southern hemispheres, as the location of water bodies in the northern hemisphere is about 60.7% of its total area. In comparison, it covers about 80.9 % of the zone of the southern hemisphere.
Those seas and oceans will be divided into areas, each bearing a barcode associated with the closest country to this area or linked to the World Space Agency if it is located within the territorial waters. Each barcode will be associated with a B7X vessel. This type of vessel does not require a driver as a space science facility controls it. These vessels and facilities are linked through the IoT system, and these facilities, in turn, receive information from specific satellites called EOS.
Satellite EO is a form of remote sensing focused on obtaining information about the Earth's surface and atmosphere from platforms up to 36,000km away in space. The derived information does not originate from a single satellite mission but a range of satellites with different instrumentation and mission objectives. The target application determines the choice of EOS
mission and instrumentation.EOS has been in orbit since the early 1970s, with state-of-the-art spatial resolution – the level at which EOS may depict surface details down to 0.25 meters from very high-resolution commercial satellites. Comparatively, publicly owned satellites provide freely available imagery down to 10-meter spatial resolution. Higher spatial resolution is typically associated with smaller area coverage and on-demand data acquisition (i.e., typically, data is not systematically collected). A wide variety of commercial and open-source satellite data is available for different spatial/temporal resolutions and associated costs. Or SENTINEL-2, it is a wide-swath, high-resolution, multi-spectral imaging mission, supporting Copernicus Land Monitoring studies, including the monitoring of vegetation, soil, and water cover, as well as observation of inland waterways and coastal areas
It can be linked to the Drifter from the GDP Drifter data collection center, part of the NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory. From here, the lab receives information from the EOS and thus controls the movement of both vessels in their assigned area with the same barcode.
The B7X is 8.2 meters long and 2.2 meters wide. It has a net weight of 3,000 kg, a 450-liter fuel tank, and a top speed of 50 knots at a range of 450 nautical miles per 15 knots. The outer hull of the boat is provided with dolphin pingers to prevent fish and aquatic animals from intercepting the boat's path and thus affecting marine life. The boats are equipped with day and night cameras to eliminate pollution resulting from oil ships and illegal immigration and identify and control the persons responsible for corruption in Region. The boats are returned to the main units weekly to carry out maintenance and unload the boat's contents from plastic, wreckage, and others and to recycle it to benefit from it.
The most important feature of our project is accuracy in data, good organization, and practicality. In addition, it contains the latest methods of identifying pollutants on the coasts and knowing the reasons for pollution. We should not forget its importance also in monitoring accidents and illegal immigration. In addition to that, it is a security system that can be managed through the governments of coastal countries.
In the future, we aim to develop the project by setting up an integrated manufacturing system for recycling waste and plastic.
We also aim to put a kind of filtration in the boat's engines to filter the water from harmful substances resulting from the decomposition of the plastic.
Space Agency Data
The links provided by the Space Agency were useful and rich with new and important information. It provided us with many ideas by displaying the satellites used to solve the problem of plastic and scattered debris, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of each satellite, which made us choose the appropriate satellite for our project. The research paper (THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL STRATEGY FOR ADDRESSING THE GLOBAL ISSUE OF MARINE LITTER)
It clarified the efforts of the different countries in solving this challenge and the amount of money spent in many directions to reach an appropriate solution - we were not aware of these efforts -.
Hackathon Journey
It was a great trip with a lot of information about space and a lot of help
Our love of learning and challenge inspired us to complete the Hackathon
With a lot of research and reviewing previous solutions to the same problem, we were able to overcome the challenges we faced
References
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http://cersat.ifremer.fr/oceanography-from-space/missions/ocean-satellites-missions
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-62298-z
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https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/discipline/ocean
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https://www.nasa.gov/feature/esnt2021/scientists-use-nasa-satellite-data-to-track-ocean-microplastics-from-space
https://www.doi.gov/ocl/marine-debris-impacts
Tags
#save_marine_life
Global Judging
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