Koala-fied| From Curious Minds Come Helping Hands
Project Details
Awards & Nominations
Koala-fied has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!
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?
Project Hydra
HYDRA is a web map visualization tool that integrates data from various sources to help humanitarian aid workers to identify the most vulnerable populations to floods.
Prototype of Web Map (It takes some time to load!)
Challenges Faced
- Difficulty in obtaining most recent data
- Difficulty in obtaining data at a granular level
Tools used:
- Graphics and icons: Flat Icon, Unsplash
- Mapping: QGIS, Web Mapping with QGIS2Web
- Poster: Canva
- Prototyping: Figma
- Video: Powerpoint
Data Used:
- Annual Disaster Statistical Review 2016: International Disaster Database
- Country boundaries: Diva-GIS
- GDP: World Bank
- Gender: World Population Review
- Hospital beds/1000 people: CIA World Fact Book
- Income inequality: World Bank
- Land cover: NASA
- Land surface temperatures: NASA
- Landsat imagery: USGS Earth Explorer
- Landslide: NASA
- Population demographics: CIA World Fact Book
- Population density: NASA
- Rainfall: NASA
- Topography: NASA
- Vulnerability Risk Index: European Commission
- Waterborne diseases: Institute Water for Africa, WHO and Google Search
Other references:
- Mobile Phone Proliferation in Sub-Saharan Africa: ZDNet
- Mobile Location Data for Disaster Aid: Apolitical
- Object Detection on Landsat 8: arXiv.org, Meteo France
- Statistics: NCBI, PreventionWeb, Times