Challenge Categories

Browse the challenge categories below to find a challenge you want to solve!

The challenges ask participants to consider the environmental, social, and economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic using data from NASA, ESA, and JAXA on the Earth Observing Dashboard. The following categories align with the “Indicators” displayed on the Dashboard.

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Air Quality

The COVID-19 outbreak and the resulting social distancing recommendations and related restrictions have led to numerous short-term changes in economic and social activity around the world, all of which may have impacts on air quality.

Water Quality

Challenges in this Indicator category will ask you to use space-based data to document water quality changes caused by COVID-19 and the associated societal responses.

Economic Impact

Challenges in this Indicator category will ask you to integrate various Earth Observations with available socioeconomic data in order to discover or enhance our understanding of COVID-19 impacts.

Interconnected Earth System Impact

Challenges in this Indicator category will ask you to determine how changes in human behavior related to COVID-19 have interconnected impacts on the Earth system.

Agricultural Impact

Challenges in this Indicator category deal with the COVID-19-related risks of disruptions to agriculture, including supply chains and logistics, that could impact food security in a region or globally.

Interactive Data Exploration

Challenges in this category will ask you to fuse/merge different Earth Observation products into single meaningful views that can provide more insights than the individual products viewed separately.