The purpose of this challenge is to use remote-sensing data and satellite images to help form a better understanding of societal trends as affected by COVID-19. Your challenge is to discern how human activity in communities of minority, low-income, tribal, and indigenous populations have changed as a result of COVID-19.
We use COVID-19 related data from EO Dashboard and sources to analyse how human activities in communities of minority, low-income, tribal, and indigenous populations have changed as a result of COVID-19. We use 7 topics to approach the main challenge. They are Health, Mobility data, Social Trends, Agriculture, Air quality and Water quality.Our main target was analysing how low-income people doing in this COVID-19 pandemic situation in Sri Lanka.
We developed a Web site to demonstrate our output.
When we were finding resources for the hackathon we faced a critical point of having a lack of information. So we think our output would be great if implemented to the dashboard when looking for data about Sri Lanka. We covered many aspects of the effect of COVID-19 on Sri Lanka and we hope this will be a place to get valuable information about the situation beyond the EO Dashboard on our country.
We analysed the data from EO Dashboard and many other resources in order to come to the conclusion. We got different outputs from different categories of the impacts on COVID-19 and merged them to get the main output.
We hope to give a place to get the whole idea about the impacts of COVID-19 and its effects on the Sri Lankan community.
Before the hackathon we read all the challenges and watched the bootcamp videos to get an idea about the challenges. From all the challenges we choose the challenge Environmental Justice During The COVID-19 Pandemic in the Interconnected Earth System Impact.
What made us choose this challenge is that it addresses the unseen part of the world. During the COVID-19 season many countries and organisations talked about the impact of COVID-19 in environmental, economical, health and political aspects. But hardly anyone talks about how COVID-19 affects the lives of low-income, tribal and indigenous people. This pandemic has caused a considerable financial issue in most of the families in our country. And also there are many people in Sri Lanka who fall into this section (low-income).
We were inspired and actually concerned about the current state of COVID-19 in our country and started tackling the task. We knew the current activities the government was doing to control the growth rate of this crisis and we hope that our output can be understood by the locals and assist the community to evaluate the level we are on and what we should do in order to rise back as a strong community successfully after the pandemic.
We mainly focused on Sri Lanka because that is our country and we need to tell the world how it is going on Sri Lanka. And also Sri Lankan people must be informed about what's going on.
Our team members divided into several categories (mobility, health, air quality, etc.) to look for data for several days and gathered all information as a team.
Then each member analysed the collected data separately in their chosen areas. Next the output in each area was created separately by the corresponding member of the team.
Our approach was to get the data from different resources and merge them together and give a brief introduction that can be easily understood by the locals. so we created a website.
We used Google sites, Google Workspace to create the website and the documents and also we used Adobe Photoshop and Adobe illustrator.
Main problems we were facing were connectivity issues with the internet. We had limited connections and it was hard to stay connected while we were on restrictions. We used online meetings to connect and we used many actions to avoid the internet issues. We had limited data on the EO Dashboard and some were not updated so we had to use many other reliable information sources other than the EO Dashboard.
Our research base on Health, Mobility data, Social Trends, Agriculture, Air quality and Water quality. As a main project guide, NASA EO Dashboard fills most of the important parts for those categories. We found Informative and updated data from the site. But there’s an issue with main indicators with low collection of data (Specifically in Sri Lanka). By analysing all the indicators, we carefully separated what our project needs and the rest that should abandon. in the agency data set its Comparable easy to read charts and trends. For the challenge we mainly focused on human activities and biological factors that matter to us as humans. Last but not least, the European Space Agency (ESA), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) gave us accurate data, all of which was a critical fact in our project.
We created a website as our solution which uses data from many websites including the EO Dashboard. If this was to be implemented to the EO Dashboard it would be much better if there was to select the country as Sri Lanka and then show our website and its data on the related sections we described. As an example if we select agricultural impact on the indicator our websites subpage can be linked there to visualize and as a brief description.
our website link:- https://www.compass-eodashhack.tk/
EO Dashboard data
google analytics
world bank official website
central bank of Sri Lanka official website
annual reports-2020 by CBSL
Our World In Data
Department Of Agriculture Sri Lanka
Department of Census and Statistics
World Air Quality Report - 2018 (By Greenpeace Organisation)
World Air Quality Report - 2019 (By Greenpeace Organisation)
World Air Quality Report - 2020 (By Greenpeace Organisation)
UN Social Impact of COVID-19
Situation by Region, Country, Territory & Area
WHOCoronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Dashboard
COVID-19 Explorer
Asian Development Bank
google trends
Google earth
Nasa Black Marble
Alos
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