Project Details

The Challenge | From Curious Minds Come Helping Hands

Your challenge is to design and build an innovative platform to integrate satellite data and information about vulnerable populations and environmental hazards in order to identify the most at-risk populations. Be creative and think outside the box. How will you identify those people that are often missed, but need aid the most?

City Explorer

Explore any city anywhere anytime

Bear Bear

Product

Often we want to travel or moving, we are uncertain about the weather, living expenses, safety of the destination city. Thus this mobile application enable us to explore any city anywhere anytime. By using this application, users able to see data such as population, pollution, safety, crime, living expenses. Environmental data such as population, pollution is extracted from NASA raw data while others is extracted specifically from different platform and sources. Other than that, users can mark the city to travel or move by a specific date in the future which will trigger an notification 2 days before travelling or moving that will show users what is the situation of the destination city and what to prepare before the journey such as winter coat.

Impact

With this mobile application, users can plan their travel before the journey to ensure a pleasure journey. If users are moving to a new working environment, they are able to prepare themselves based on expected living expenses, pollution and population. Users also can choose their retirement city using this mobile application.

Sustainability

We can do some advertisement based on the real time data, season and date, for example, best to go japan to see cherry blossom in end of March with the high safety index and pollution-free environment. The data collected throughout the years will also allow user generate a detail report that show the strength and weakness about the city, suggest improvement area to attract more tourism or resident, feedback from tourist, and finally can estimate tourism income based on the data.

Creativity / Uniqueness

This mobile application offers one-stop data presentation that utilizing big data analysis on the back-end. We do recommend city to travel based on the season and can tell user what to prepare before their journey.


Reference:

https://earthdata.nasa.gov/earth-observation-data/near-real-time/hazards-and-disasters/air-quality

https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/pathfinders/water-quality-data-pathfinder

https://earthdata.nasa.gov/eosdis/daacs/sedac#targetText=Webinar%3A%20Discover%20NASA's%20Gridded%20Population,high%2Dresolution%20population%20data%20collection