Spaceboom

SAR, the revolutionary technology

High-Level Project Summary

Based on NASA resources, we could create a didactic video explaining a little bit about how it works and why it's important for us. Bringing this content to the language level of our target audience and showing pictures of it was the key to better access the public. It's important to understand this technology because It could help control deforestation, fires and other natural or human phenomena, and in Brazil, especially, in the Amazon Forest.

Link to Project "Demo"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-69MbqbRBH4

Link to Final Project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcIqOTa8asI

Detailed Project Description

The project was created focusing on public general comprehension, but especially, for teenagers. We tried to explain the importance of " Synthetic Aperture Radars", which could be useful in Brazil as it works better than common satellites. Using this technology, we can achieve the local characteristics with more details and, consequently, monitoring human and phenomenal disasters.

Space Agency Data

https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/backgrounders/what-is-sar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwfvKO9LUnA

The first link was the base for our content formulation of the project and the second, provided us some great images to illustrate what was taught in the video. However, All of the resources available on the site were important to better comprehend the functionality of SARS and inspire us to immerse in this amazing technology.

Hackathon Journey

It was a big experience for us, we did hard group work. We learned a lot about our project, especially about how "SAR" works. We were inspired to select this challenge because this king of Radars could be extremely helpful in Brazil, to monitor fires and deforestation. The team tried to do the project in an accessible language, for everyone who would like to improve and take some knowledge.