Remotely sensed data can provide information about conditions on the ground that may affect food supply chains and food security during pandemics. Your challenge is to demonstrate the agricultural socio-economic impacts from COVID-19.
To make sure of the originality and strength of the idea, we have read many research papers in agriculture and irrigation and how agricultural lands are irrigated, and how these methods consume a high amount of water. We have seen the latest reports from the United Nations and international organizations that discuss this problem and lack of inspiration. Farmers and growers are serious about the matter, for 70% of water is wasted during planting and irrigation. We have searched for the best materials that we can work with to build our project and finally, we achieved it in this project and we keep going in the development of the project.
As the challenge talking about agriculture, so the project must address the point of weakness that faces the world. in the first, the project based on technology to decrease the ratio of communication between the people to decrease the number of COVID-19 cases. the project is built with an Arduino board, it was selected; because it the best compiler to take a lot of operations and do it in a few seconds to run. one of the most ways to determine if the project is successful or not is the amount of operation that is made in the amount of time that it takes, in addition of the lifetime and the cost. the project's idea is to save the effort of the farmers and make the work done without any problems. the project contains an Arduino board, soil moisture, water pump, and relay module. the soil moisture will check the ratio of humidity in the soil and send an order to the Arduino to make the pump get the water to the point that wants water in the field. we hope to achieve a high level of work done with a little effort; because we are facing a lot of problems and we must embark together and face the COVID-19 by the social spacing.
Every hard work must path with many troubles till you complete it then you with see the good result,
The scarcity of water is a very beg problem that face us today and there are many reasons that cause this problem. So this inspired us to work on this idea.
In our project we chose the agricultur challenge with working on solving many problems that face irrigation and agricultur overall. We made a system that work on plumbing the water to the crops only in the time they need not all the time, as in usual the irrigation done by pumbing a very big amount of water to the soil and repeat this process every specific period of time. This reduce the consumption of the water and also waste time, water , effort , money. So we decide to make it with a simple code in C program language with Arduino and electrical components like Ardunio UNO,
Bread board,
Soil Moisture Sensor,
Connecting Wires,
Water pump,
Relay module,
then we began to make the code with Arduino and we finished it, we also prepared for the hardware prototype but didn't finished yet.
During this process we faced many code mistakes and we then try to solve it with a lot of hard work then we could finish it and be sure that it didn't have any mistakes.
From using the NASA and NASA's partner agencies for this challenge which it helps us more to in choosing challenge and influencing our project as we found that:
agriculture is the backbone economy, it deserves to be modernized. To overcome backwardness of traditional methods of agriculture and to enhance the crop production, to avoid the risk of damaging crops, and to do efficient use of water resources.
satellite data offered an effective and rapid way to map the country’s distribution of croplands and characterize the nature of agricultural fields during the pandemic.
Earth Observing Dashboard.
water quality during the covid 19.
Water is one of our most precious natural resources. But in many regions of the world, water supplies are under increasing pressure, and resource decisions are becoming more and more complex.
The reduced amount of fields cultivated will lead to a significant lower production of asparagus and related economic loss.
The GEO Health Community of Practice launched into action at the start of the pandemic.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19K0L93p9ec9NlCOjGV-SHvq8YeU6ckGM/view?usp=drivesdk
in this presentation you will found:
script for data collection.
the script for agricultural impacts of covid-19.
the script for background research and purpose of this challenge.
the script for details about our project what is it, how it use or how can we use it, and methodology.
the script for proposed system like model design, working principle, and experimental result .
simulation for our project (proposed system model) and script for details for how we made it.
the graphics presented.
slides in .power point.
project code:
https://github.com/2019111111/irrigation
we have chosen the challenge Agricultural impact and during our research, we discovered that many climate changes happen because of covid-19 and there are many problems facing agriculture as the rains and humidity leads to damage of crops.
so, in light of this challenge, we have made a project that might help in the previous problems. and this project solves the problem of a lack of employment and increase in employment in the same time as some Agricultural land suffers from a shortage of workers so this project compensate this shortage and on the other level it helps in reduction of spreading coronavirus.
It also helps in growing correctly for crops in perfect time, it keeps fruits fresh, and It keeps the crops healthy.
we will discuss the idea of working on the project: It can be called a smart irrigation system. we are using an Arduino microcontroller to control and sense the thing in the projects such as sense or measure the moisture in the soil we are using a soil moisture sensor. the soil moisture sensor is a sensor that varies the value when it contacts the moisture.
This occurs by putting a sensor in the soil and connecting it to an application on the mobile phone.
Also, there's a pump connected to the sensor.
So, when the sensor sends signals to the app about decreasing the soil moisture, the farmer would be able to let the pumps open by clicking on a button from the application and there would be a timer to stop the pump when the soil moisture is moderated.
https://www.eodashboard.org/?indicator=E10d&poi=TG01-E10d
https://earthdata.nasa.gov/covid19/explore/sc?map=32.5955%2C30.1431%2C9.46&layers=&lState=
https://earthdata.nasa.gov/covid19/discoveries/water-quality/water-quality-during-pandemic
http://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/what-we-do/water-resources
https://www.eodashboard.org/?indicator=E10a3&poi=DE11-E10a3
http://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/our-impact/news/nasas-earth-applied-sciences-program-participates-one-health-day-2020-focus-covid
#agricultural, #covid-19, #socio-econmic impacts, #farmers, #food security, #food production systems, #water management #arduino, #water pump, #soil moisture sensor
This project has been submitted for consideration during the Judging process.