The COVID-19 pandemic is currently bringing unprecedented impacts to every aspect of human life. Your challenge is to better understand societal trends in response to COVID-19 through the analysis of remote sensing data and products.
Analysts fear that the global economy may slip into a recession if the virus remains to be posted for a long time. Changes have come into the economy of different regions. All the indicators of the EO Dashboard are trying to understand the region based changes. But we want to get proper knowledge about the changes in the global economy. So, we have tried to find out something that relates to the market. We want to use Sulfuric Acid as an indicator. It can give us better knowledge about the industries that are working in this pandemic. Besides, by using the Echo and SONAR technology to detect deforestation, we can know about the world population and the wood products manufacturing market.
The COVID-19 pandemic is currently bringing unprecedented impacts to every aspect of human life. Our challenge is to better understand societal trends in response to COVID-19 through the analysis of remote sensing data and products.
SPM, RPM, Mobility Trends, and CO2 all indicators that are helping us to get ideas about the economy and the changes. But we want to get proper knowledge about the global market. So, we have tried to find out anything that relates to the market. We have mainly tried to find a new indicator and develop an existing indicator.
The economy of a country depends on agricultural, industrial, and service sectors. By using H2SO4 we can get a better idea about the working areas in agriculture and the industrial sector. CO2 Indicators can’t describe the economic sectors properly. It describes the climate changes. SPM/RPM uses 3d works, Echo, and SONAR technology. But it can only show the density of people, cars, shipping, and constructions. The same goes for Mobility Trends. It uses the phone’s GPS technology. It mainly works to describe the situation of service sectors. But, our new indicator- using the rate of H2SO4- can relate to the global economy and describe the proper scenario of the economy. Besides, we can observe the rate of deforestation by SPM/RPM. That's how we can get a better idea about the wood products manufacturing market.
Sulfuric Acid: Sulfuric acid is also used as a reactant during the manufacture or processing of certain goods. Here are some examples of its function:
The sulfuric acid market is segmented into:
Since the COVID-19 virus outbreak in December 2019, the disease has spread to almost 200 countries around the globe with the World Health Organization declaring it a public health emergency. The global impacts of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are already starting to be felt and will significantly affect the Ultra-Pure Sulfuric Acid market in 2020.
Figure-1: sulfuric acid marketing revenue
Week demand from the following industries:
Strong areas:
Here we can see that in this pandemic copper, automotive, automobile, and refining sectors have reduced their use of H2SO4. So, this COVID 19 has a bad impact on some major construction sites.
On the other hand, H2SO4 is being used much in agriculture(fertilizer), water treatment, paper industries, and chemical manufacturing sites. So, we can understand that COVID 19 has no bad effects on these sides
Wood extraction: Wood is one of the raw materials of the industrial sector. As a material, wood has been in service since humans appeared on Earth. Today, despite technological advancement and competition from metals, plastics, cement, and other materials, wood maintains a place in most of its traditional roles, and its serviceability is expanding through new uses. In addition to well-known products such as lumber, furniture, and plywood, wood is the raw material for wood-based panels, pulp and paper, and many chemical products. Finally, wood is still an important fuel in much of the world.
On a weight basis, the consumption of wood exceeds by far that of other materials. More than half of Round wood (log) production is consumed as fuel, mainly in less-developed countries. Production of paper and paperboard has shown the most rapid increase among wood products; this trend is expected to continue as consumption per person in the less-developed countries approaches that in the developed nations. The rising world population is the driving force of increasing consumption of wood and consequent deforestation.
The outbreak of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has acted as a massive restraint on the wood products manufacturing market in 2020 as supply chains were disrupted due to trade restrictions and consumption declined due to lockdowns imposed by governments globally.
The outbreak of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has acted as a massive restraint on the wood products manufacturing market in 2020 as supply chains were disrupted due to trade restrictions and consumption declined due to lockdowns imposed by governments globally.
Figure-2: deforestation rate
In the graph, we can observe that there was a decrease in wood production in the first quarter of 2020, which is the period when Covid-19 began to spread globally. It refers to the great impact of covid-19 in the wood products industry. But later on, it started recovering again.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-58Vm_cHhipd67eS61tJn5QKtQrywQC9/view?usp=drivesdk
Our team is a perfect example of diversity. All the members are from different places, from different backgrounds. Some are from Bangladesh, one is from India, one is from Morocco, and others are from Egypt.
We had a meeting before taking any challenge. We divided our works and checked all the challenges, EO dashboard, and all the pros and cons. Then we decided that 'Urban Societal Behavior Patterns During Covid-19' is the best for us. What was our approach? You always tried to give our best for the development of science and technology. We have tried to use the EO dashboard's idea and knowledge to know about the scenario properly. Then we find out the changes that have come in our economy. And at least we have worked on a new indicator that can describe the situation more effectively. We used different resources and documents from the internet to develop our project.
For the diversity of culture, we have faced some problems. Communication cap and language barrier were the biggest problems for the team. We didn't know anything about each other. So, we couldn't believe others or couldn't take others' opinions easily.
Although we faced all these difficulties you have tried at our utmost level to solve these problems and in the end, we succeed. Now we are friends. We learn about others and their cultures.
We've worked on almost all regions using the data of the NASA planet and EO dashboard. We tried to find out the economic changes with the help of all the indicators. Then we combined the knowledge and datasets to get a perfect idea about the global economy. Using that idea, we have worked on a new indicator and developed the concept of an existing one that would be able to describe the scenario more effectively.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-50kf_hIQsymPIf1YlTXAgHYHnWiSiJ4/view?usp=drivesdk
We have mainly worked on the indicators. We have demonstrated their working process and their importance. From there we have got some ideas about our new indicator that can solve all those questions more effectively because they are related to the economy. Using the rate of H2SO4 as an indicator can give us better knowledge about the industries that are working in this pandemic.
Which are the sectors working? Which are the regions? It can answer all the questions. As an additional topic, we tried to develop the working process of SPM and RPM. We can detect deforestation. It will give an idea about the world population and the wood products manufacturing market.
GlobalChange.gov
World Bank Report
Knoema.com
EO Dashboard
NASA planet
The Hospital Trade Group the Healthcare
Association of New York State
https://pfnyc.org/research/new-york-city-covid-19-economic-impact-update/
https://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/2020-year-review-impact-covid-19-12-charts
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7505605/
http://www.centernyc.org/covid19-economic-impact
https://www.google.com/covid19/mobility/
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00090-3
Statista Research Department
BBC NEWS
https://www.macrotrends.net
Google LLC “Google COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports
JLL Recovery Index (excl. Real Estate Index)
ISRO’s reports
International labour organization
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