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?

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Our project aims to provide assistance to those who are affected by natural disasters. We are using the NASA EONET API, The Earth Observatory Natural Tracker, to show areas nearby affected by such catastrophes and help organize donations and volunteers.

Our project aims to provide assistance to those who are affected by natural disasters, organizing volunteer groups and donations efficiently and collaboratively. To reach this objective, we are creating a platform that will map zones that are experiencing environmental disasters, focusing on landslides and floods, which are current in brazilian reality and cause many losses. 2276 brazilian cities were affected by floods or landslides from 2008 to 2013, what corresponds to 40,9% of brazilian cities, leaving 1.406.713 people homeless. Alongside, 32% of brazilian cities don’t have a civil defense team which could take action in a natural disaster occurrence and 48% don’t have a plan to deal with natural disasters. Using NASA NASA EONET API, The Earth Observatory Natural Tracker, we are going to identify and show areas nearby affected by such catastrophes and how the user can help in those situations, connecting help to those in need. There are several ways to help, such as donating food, drinkable water, clothes, cleaning and personal hygiene products, or acting as a volunteer providing transport, receiving and organizing donations, helping rescue teams (only for those who are trained for it), attending injured people (for health professionals) and providing psychological care (for mental health professionals). We are going to understand the demands of each specific occurrence and help volunteers and donors understand in which help is needed the most.