The longer human activities are changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the more visible, wider, and longer lasting the scope of environmental impacts may be. Your challenge is to tell a visual story about the impacts of the pandemic using Earth observation data and other complementary information.
We understand that the air quality of the city of São Paulo has improved by more than 50p percent. This is due to a decrease in car traffic and decreasing the presence of gases such as CO2, which were released by cars. In this pandemic scenario, São Paulo failed to release more than 139 thousand tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in 2020.However, what very few researches comment is that due to a more flexible confinement in the metropolis and due to weather conditions, there is a time of year with a drier climate, which aggravates the pollution and its levels, which are increasingly higher.Understand a little more about our idea, let's go!
EN: In this project, we present how COVID-19 is impacting the city of São Paulo, initially supporting the improvement of the city's air quality, but getting worse again due to the flexibility of the lockdown and weather conditions, presenting a dry and hot.
PT: Neste projeto, apresentamos como a COVID-19 está impactando a cidade de São Paulo, no início sendo um apoio para a melhoria da qualidade do ar da cidade, mas piorando novamente devido à flexibilização do lockdown e das condições meteorológicas, apresentando um clima seco e quente.
EN: Through research carried out using official websites such as Planet Explorer and external research, using reliable journalistic websites and articles, we developed the entire script and production of our material, reaching the result we have achieved today.
PT: Através de pesquisas realizadas usando sites oficiais como o Planet Explorer e pesquisas externas, usando sites e artigos jornalísticos confiáveis desenvolvemos todo o roteiro e produção do nosso material, chegando ao resultado que conquistamos hoje.
EN: Through the use of Planet Explorer satellites, it was possible to analyze the images and be able to compare the improvement/worsening of air quality.
PT: Através de pesquisas realizadas usando sites oficiais como o Planet Explorer e pesquisas externas, usando sites e artigos jornalísticos confiáveis desenvolvemos todo o roteiro e produção do nosso material, chegando ao resultado que conquistamos hoje.
EN: Our solution can be used as research and information for people and companies that want to know and study more about the metropolitan region of greater São Paulo, Brazil in order to work on developing solutions and improvements for it.
PT: Nossa solução poderá ser usada como pesquisa e informação para pessoas e empresas que pretendem conhecer e estudar mais sobre a região metropolitana da grande São Paulo, Brasil para poder trabalhar no desenvolvimento de soluções e melhorias para a mesma.
Quarantine: pollution in São Paulo decreased by 50%
Quarantine makes São Paulo's sky turn blue again
With the relaxation of the quarantine, pollution is once again visible in the sky of São Paulo
Even with the pandemic, air pollution in São Paulo grew in 2020
Air pollution in São Paulo decreases 50% in the first week of quarantine
Pollution is again visible in the sky of São Paulo with a more flexible quarantine
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