Tactic 1.0

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Tactic 1.0

High-Level Project Summary

We have developed a prototype in the form of a dashboard, with Space Agency and other open source data that shows factors that contribute to climate change. These factors are Air Pollution, Drought Levels, Heatwave Levels and Fire Activity. It also predicts the likelihood of these factors increasing or decreasing in the future. Furthermore, it informs the user of the future implications these factors would have if not reduced, health risks associated with these factors and guidance on mitigation methods. Our project, with it's user friendly interface, can be used by the general public and professionals to take action on the issues we face with the ongoing climate crisis.

Link to Project "Demo"

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16pP49sOwqQVGlLtK5FSrJaRARvsscRI1q7fPQLoEt9g/edit?usp=sharing

Link to Final Project

https://www.figma.com/proto/Hk4DfSxpSudFIuC3aUwMQM/NASA-Space-App?node-id=2%3A5&scaling=scale-down-width&page-id=0%3A1&starting-point-node-id=2%3A5&hide-ui=1

Detailed Project Description

What It Does

Our prototype is called Tactic 1.0, a dashboard interface which has analyzed space agency data and open data for four factors: air pollution, drought levels, heatwave levels and fire activity. The five main countries we have focused on are Australia, America, Canada, China and France since they all play quite a large role in climate change around the world. Our dashboard also analyzes previous data per factor and current trends therefore predicting the likelihood of each factor increasing or decreasing. This is measured with high, moderate and low. With high meaning there is a high chance of increase/decrease of a factor and low meaning there is a low chance of increase/decrease of a factor. The dashboard also provides mitigation measures and risks/health risks the factors would have on the environment and people if unattended to.

How Does It Work

With the data we had collected we were able to analyse different data sets and create tables for each country containing different predictions for cities/towns in the country where mitigation efforts would be highly necessary. For example, regarding Australia's drought factor we collected data for the top five places in Australia with the lowest rainfall and with that information and current trends were able to predict future conditions and provide risks/health risks and reduction methods.

Benefits

We believe our project will be highly useful in communities and plan to develop it further into a proper dashboard accessible to the public. Our project has collated pages of data into an easy, understandable format that can be used by anyone whether they are professionals or not. We believe local councils at high risk can explore our dashboard and read about mitigation efforts they can put in place to improve the quality of life in their area and play their part in lowering climate change.

Hope To Achieve

We hope with our project we can do something that can benefit the world in reducing the affects of climate change and help communities improve their livability with reducing negative factors.

Space Agency Data

The space agency data we mostly used was EO Dashboard data which provided us with essential information such as CO2 emission levels around the world and other data we needed for each factor we were focusing on. The EO Dashboard further inspired us since it has a very user-friendly format and we wanted our project to be the same.

Other space agency data we used was thermal hotspots and fire activity data from the MODIS Satellite which helped us in data analyzing and making further predictions.

Extra:

Heat related illness-CDC (provided by NASA) - heatwave data
USA Drought Monitor - drought data
NOAA North American Drought Monitor - drought data

Hackathon Journey

What We Learnt and Approach

We learnt the importance of NASA technology and data since it is so essential in helping us predict what may occur in the future and see what's occurring now in real time. We both learnt the importance of teamwork and collaboration since we learnt different skills from each other and were able to split our workload equally. We also learned how to compromise when problems occurred so we could still provide a project that showed our full potential. Our approach to developing our project was creating something that we knew would have a positive impact and help create good change. We tried to come up with the best possible solution to the challenge that we knew could be used and further developed into something highly useable even after the challenge had ended.

Challenges

We faced challenges in trying to create a complete dashboard within the time limit but were able to compromise to create a prototype with a dashboard interface which we plan to make into a publicly accessible dashboard in the future.

Thanks

Thank you to NASA for providing us with this wonderful opportunity. And thank you to all the helpers in each chat helping us answer our questions and a big thank you to the Perth Chat that helped us stay on track and answered all our questions.