• Using EO data to track COVID hotspots and breakouts for future Government restrictions.
• Using hotspot data to spot trends in close-down situations and navigate freight and goods to the most impacted regions.
• Following "Panic Buying Trends" to ensure stability in the food chain to avoid the frequent shortages that occurred during the 2020 pandemic.
• Tracking the availability of upcoming crops for harvest and processing to ensuring the availability of a workforce to process them.
• Tracking outbreaks to process shortage facilities to prevent a massive Governmental shutdown by rotating laborers in specific regions.

Developing an app extension or indicator for the Earth Observation platform could help monitor regional or national activity in all nations by spotting where the spending trends show "panic buying", to keep the local economy going and allow the food chain to keep up with demand. Also by forecasting outbreak hotspots, the Government agencies could share data with food industry processing plants, shipping companies and labor contractors. This would help them better prepare for any Government shutdowns due to infection rates increasing. More trackable data for forecasting food fluctuations, outbreaks, and labor shortages could help better manage all segments of the food industry.

Our data integration would allow for more accessible information on key developments that would affect the food chain. It would allow for better tracking and distribution needs globally for commodities and other food stuffs that are required by society for its survival.

Our data platform would use correlating NASA, ESA, and JAXA data from the Earth Observation Platform to follow trends and forecasts for farming and harvest times, COVID 19 outbreaks and hotspots, Government shutdowns and border closures, labor shortages and "panic buying trends", as well as food shortages to ensure the supply of goods keep up with the demand.

We hope to alleviate potential food shortages and labor demands by providing more access to data that could show current market trends, swings, decreases and surplus of goods to help with the logistics and timing that are necessary to insure food stability throughout the world.

We gathered the required data by doing research on the following topics:

• How the food industry was affected during the pandemic over all the world.
• Researched how agricultural practices have minimized during the lockdown due to the lack of labor.
• In addition to the weather conditions, how COVID has taken down the food processing activities.
• How the travel ban has disrupted the food supply to many regions and generated food and goods shortages.

Then we came with an idea of an application, which will be performed by the following functions:

• Using EO data to track COVID hotspots and breakouts for future Government restrictions.
• Using hotspot data to spot trends in close-down situations and navigate freight and goods to the most impacted regions.
• Following "Panic Buying Trends" to ensure stability in the food chain to avoid the frequent shortages that occurred during the 2020 pandemic.
• Tracking the available and coming up crops for harvest and processing to ensuring the availability of a workforce to process them.
• Tracking outbreaks to process shortage facilities to prevent a massive Governmental shutdown by rotating laborers in specific regions.

We used the following satellite datasets:

Sentinel-1

282 Sentinel-1A, 1B C-band images

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15zdkgIiBSRP11BqsFIhd0DSIcA5ezEe5/view?usp=sharing

We would have a developer provide source code and integrate it through the use of the Euro Data Cube and Github. Platforms would be modified to integrate each specific source code with each section of the EO to provide functionality and purpose.

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Aday, S. and Aday, M., 2020. Impact of COVID-19 on the food supply chain. Food Quality and Safety, 4(4), pp.167-180.

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This project has been submitted for consideration during the Judging process.