Olympus

Hermosillo, Sonora | Measuring the Value of Earth Observations

Olympus

High-Level Project Summary

We developed an interactive map that provides information of population, economic and infraestructure risks from possible subsidence hazards. It solved the challenge as we used satellite information of water bodies, their position, density, size ,as well as, depth, and related to frequent subsidence incidents. Doing this, we were able to find a relation between this water bodies to incidents that cost numerous lives and resources. This is an important achievment, because, we can provide to different government institutions, private contractors , also general population, the economic and security disadvantages of building or extracting water from prone subsidence hazard landscapes.

Link to Project "Demo"

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mU1TLEbDU0GAOIlWFsSG5MlS-1vPaX8r/view?usp=sharing

Link to Final Project

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ceJWX5sMbQ_LezovAS9zhib8lio-Qrlu?usp=sharing

Detailed Project Description

Provide additional details about your project. What exactly does it do? How does it work? What benefits does it have? What do you hope to achieve? What tools, coding languages, hardware, or software did you use to develop your project? We made a map that utilizes the satellite subsidence data of an area and other geographical elements like population density and GDP to estimate the damage that sinking terrain could cause in any specific area or region. Information was gathered from the California Natural Resources Agency and from UNESCO Land Subsidence International Initiative (LaSII). The data was compiled on an Excel spreadsheet, also using a formula (attachment 1) to predict the EGDP (Exposed Gross Domestic Product). Then, we imported the database to a map on ArcGIS software. We hope to provide accurate information about the economic and security disadvantages of building or extracting water from landscapes prone to subsidence hazard to different government institutions, private contractors, or to the general population. Att.1: EGDP=GDP per capitaPotential exposed population

Space Agency Data

INSAR
European Space Agency

Geohazards INSAR Laboratory and Modelling group, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid, Spain. INSAR is a satellite from the european space agency that monitors ground deformation to help prevent environmental accidents, improve safety, and maintain operational success. This data was part of a research document that contained the database that had the ground subsidence data per country and other information used in our map.

Hackathon Journey

Being our first time in this hackathon, we feel very excited because it has helped us get out of our comfort zone and that no matter how old we are or what career we choose, there is always something new to learn and experiences to be you take with you. We have learned a lot about teamwork and communication from being a completely online event. Also, to use different programs to make predictions and calculate risks of some problems in other countries. When working we face some complications such as the internet, all of us working at the same time and finding the information that we specifically need.

Finally, we thank one of our most beloved teachers at Tec de Monterrey, Abraham Kraff, for having motivated us to participate in these types of events and for not letting fear dominate us and missing out on great experiences.