TwoDegreeCelcius

https://github.com/mingyan98/TwoDegreeCelcius

https://yapmingyan.shinyapps.io/TwoDegreeCelcius/

What exactly does it do?

EHRIS have several sections, the main section the the heat map that shows the heat stress intensity levels with points of location where user can click on it to display details such as city details, heat risk level and impact type. Next, EHRIS have a section displaying the city data for users to view. The quantitative data provides an overview of a list of cities with their corresponding information. Lastly, EHRIS have a section that display a plot of global temperature anomalies across land and ocean

How does it work?

EHRIS is a web app that allows users to click on selected city to view the city details with heat related risks that serves as a warning and the impact type that likely to occur due to heat extremes. User can also have a tabular view on a list of quantitative city data to understand the data in detail. Lastly, user can also view the global temperature anomalies across land and ocean to understand the significance and impact of climate change to our lives

What benefits does it have?

Through the use of EHRIS, users are able to obtain information able heat-related extremes, which area are affected, the type of heat -related risk likely to occur and suggested mitigation measures to well prepared counter the heat extremes.

What do you hope to achieve?

I hope to achieve problem solving that connected to our real life situation by applying my programming skills with other domain knowledge, in this case, Earth Science knowledge and GIS programming skills, that are able to bring more people connected with information that provide warning, risk and mitigation measures that can well informed to users

What tools, coding languages, hardware, or software did you use to develop your project?

coding language: R programming, R Shiny

software: R Studio

knowledge: GIS knowledge , NASA satellite mission, name, instrument (sometimes I lost because I don't know how to make sense of NASA dataset)

USA Drought Monitor

NASA GISS surface temperature analysis: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v4/

NASA urban climate change research network

Others:

ArcGIS Hub: (USA Major Cities): https://hub.arcgis.com/datasets/esri::usa-major-cities/about

How would you describe your Space Apps experience?

This is my first time participating in a (virtual) hackathon. I first saw this NASA Space Apps hackathon through my University facebook posing, and as a final year undergraduate computational science student, I, I think it would be a great to have a once a lifetime opportunity to get involve in a hackathon and thus I sign up for this event. The reason I participate in this event is that I just recently completed my internship in August

What did you learn? 

Throughout the month before and during the hackathon, I had learn a lot of things such as knowledge related with Earth science, climate change, satellite technology and technical knowledge as in R programming, NASA information such as organization like NASA Goddard, NASA satellites names, mission and instruments as well as NASA resources and visualization tools such as Giovanni, Earthdata Search, WorldView, FIRMS and the many more interesting activities organized by my local lead.

What inspired your team to choose this challenge?

Personally, I think climate change is the central theme of the 21st century, and it is really concerned to heard the news that many places around the glove had natural disasters, if not, the frequent occurrence of wildfires, such in US, California, or heatwave in many places in Europe and Australia. This challenge is related to the ever increasing extreme heat and our life, so I decided to try out this challenge.

What was your approach to developing this project?

Earlier before the detail of the challenge was released I was learning R programming and GIS knowledge. My idea is that this challenge is somewhat similar to applied GIS concept but just need to transform the satellite data.

How did your team resolve setbacks and challenges?

Throughout the month before the hackathon, I go through some materials on the web and the resource of challenge. Initially I did not understand at all until the last day before the opening ceremony I was able to realize and understanding some of the things that I was looking for. Since this is my first time doing a hackathon, I only able to learn just sufficient knowledge to make the output. Still there are a few difficulties that I faced in this challenge such as the complexity of satellite data and output them in R

Is there anyone you'd like to thank and why?

I would like to thank NASA and my local lead for organizing this event that has make my time productive, learning new knowledge and also great place for me to develop a web app and apply my programming skills and GIS skills .

R Shiny

R & GIS knowledge

Food Energy Water Nexus

NASA WorldView

GIOVANNI

NASA LANCE FIRMS

#climatechange #heat #risk #warning #USA #sarawak #R # RShiny

This project has been submitted for consideration during the Judging process.