High-Level Project Summary
Synthetic aperture radar provides images that are not affected by sunlight or the cloud cover. The number of space missions increasing the data we receive from SAR will also increase. Slowly this will affect all our lives, so we need to understand these images. To explain something to non-experts is difficult, but we have found the way around it. We have developed an animated video that explains simply how this aperture works and how to read the images, we have also answered some of the most frequently asked questions about SAR. our project is really important because in a few years we all will need to see the impact this aperture has on our community.
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Detailed Project Description
A large amount of data we get from the SAR can improve our communities a lot if normal non-expert people can read them. Our project focuses mainly on explaining how SAR works. By knowing the way this aperture functions we can move on to reading the images it produces. After we know how it works and how to read the data we might still have some really curious questions to ask, some of the questions we ourselves had after studying the aperture are answered in the video. And for all the curious minds that are looking for more information, we have included a link to a NASA website where everyone can access way more information on their own. We hoped that after watching our video people have a simple understanding of the Synthetic Aperture Radar and can be able to interpret the data we receive from it. Some of the tools we used were the various websites listed in the references and the Animaker website we used to develop the video.
Space Agency Data
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em41MxplcDc
https://nisar.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/multimedia
Hackathon Journey
This hackathon was a very unique experience for each of us, this journey started when we built our team. At first, it felt really weird to work with people you have never met but we found the ambition to succeed and the will to work hard for this and we started our journey. At first, we had to consider many choices while picking the right challenge for us but in the end, we were intrigued by What on earth is SAR? Mostly because we ourselves did not know the answer to this. And what could be more challenging than understanding a device the way it works and who to interpret its data, and then finding the simplest way to explain it to someone else. So at first wee read a lot of articles about SAR, and we noted down questions that we helped each other answer. Then we tried explaining this to the people around us, our parents, siblings, friends, and some of our teachers at school. And so we noted down the most effective ways to explain and what people needed to know and, we also noted down our own questions and the question that our friends had. After organizing the information effectively we started working on the video. We decided to keep the animations simple so that the focus of the watchers remained on the explanations, we also included a link for all the people who are interested to study this independently as we did at the begging. we would like to thank all the people how listened to us and helped us see this project from different angles.
References
https://www.animaker.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xemo2ZpduHA
https://asf.alaska.edu/information/sar-information/what-is-sar/
Tags
#radar #satellite #imagery #radius #panorama #application #surface #mapping #nasa #project #research #signal