High-Level Project Summary
Farmers suicide in Sri Lanka due to heat related activities. Team HEATRIX developed a desktop app with a state of the art unique algorithm using NASA earth data to work anywhere. We detect the rising heat with the power of ten type of data and able to provide heat predictions and to be used by agricultural officers, environmental organizations, smart farmers, uni lecturers and students and individuals productively. We believe this will help to decrease the suicide rate of farmers in Sri Lanka and help protect the environment specially the forests from fires as we predict upcoming fires and identify heat zones. There for we believe we have been able to provide a solution to the challenge.
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Detailed Project Description
Heatrix's algorithm was written in plain JavaScript. The ide was partly adobe Dreamweaver and plain text editors. The app itself was coded on a MacBook Pro. The algorithm interprets NASA earth fire data and uses the near real-time data and generates the data on an interactive map. The algorithm tells you the time detected the data source (NASA) Fire MW rating (on selected operating systems) and more. The data is accurate to a 1 km radius, beating most fire tracking systems. Every time a fire is detected, it is recorded and is used for predictive analytics. The algorithm also senses air pollution with the exact pollutant in the area and generates a warning (good, dangerous for sensitive groups, medium etc). There is also a function where it reports stress due to a lack of moisture.
Space Agency Data
NASA
Earth Data
Open Weather API
Crowdsourced and government authorities.
The NASA earth data is generated on an interactive map. The algorithm tells you the time detected the data source (NASA) Fire MW rating (on selected operating systems) and more. The data is accurate to a 1 km radius, beating most fire tracking systems. Every time a fire is detected, it is recorded and is used for predictive analytics. The algorithm also senses air pollution with the exact pollutant in the area and generates a warning (good, dangerous for sensitive groups, medium etc). There is also a function where it reports stress due to a lack of moisture.
Hackathon Journey
Team leader Megha Wijewardane is an 11 years old self taught app developer and has been participating in NASA space apps challenges since 2017. This is his 5th year at NASA Space App Challenges. Megha formed his team with a great diversity. Three of the team members are from Adelaide Australia and two members are from Sri Lanka. We have an app developer, a communication specialist, an illustrator, an environmental engineer and an agriculturist.
We got together as a team for the NASA SPACE APPS CHALLENGE and we brain stormed of ideas and first hand experiences to choose a challenge. we learnt a lot during our discussions sharing experiences and finally decided to choose Warning : Things are heating up.
We all have a Sri Lankan heritage. And we value traditional agriculture and how it looked after our planet without using the practices which led to global warming. We agreed if we are able to provide heat predictions using our unique algorithms, agricultural officers, environmental organizations, smart farmers, uni lecturers and students and other individuals would be able to productively use the app and change accordingly. We believe this will help to decrease the suicide rate of farmers in Sri Lanka and help protect the environment specially the forests from fires as we predict upcoming fires and identify heat zones.
Our app developer Megha has to face a challenge when he was developing the fire predictor using NASA Earth data as there are millions of fires in the world and it is huge data base to work with and more possibilities to crash the systems. Once our system got crashed and Megha had to develop a more efficient and faster algorithm to overcome that problem.
And we gave priority to the ideas of environmental engineer and agriculturist about crowd sourced data information as they have a better understanding what heat related problems people face and what information could be used to monitor and evaluation.
As a team we really appreciate our team leader 11 years old Megha Wijewardane's efforts in developing the right app we wanted with the right sources and the right interpretation with a modern unique algorithm and modern outlook with out any senior developer involvement at all.
A special thanks goes to Deputy Provincial director Agriculture Anusha Palihawadana for valuable input and encouraging the team advising that an app like this would be a great asset.
And Many thanks to NASA Earth Data for having universally available data to be used for the sake of humanity and environment.
References
NASA
Earth Data
Open Weather API
Crowdsourced and government authorities.
Adobe Dreamweaver
TextEdit
Gsuite
Tags
#app, #NASAEarthData, #globalwarming, #tracklivefires, #trackmoistureinsoil, #MeghaWijewardane, #farminghelp, #smartagriculture, #heatmonitor,
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