The objective of this challenge is to communicate the environmental impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in a simple method. Our project addresses the challenge by the interpretation and explanation of each environmental impact based upon the data collected from the EARTH OBSERVATION DASHBOARD and other external sources.

The main reason behind our team taking up this challenge is we are not bound a limit of fulfilling certain criteria but we have the opportunity to "think out of the box" and exploit our imagination to form the best possible solution.

To come up with the solution, that is , to communicate the environmental impacts we used the data and resources available on the EARTH OBSERVATION DASHBOARD and some of the external sources.

Since it is a storytelling challenge, we used nothing other than the available resources, external resources and our imagination.

Coming up with ideas is not an easy task, so we had to spend a lot of time thinking. Also, retrieving information from the sources and processing it is a hectic job. Honestly, that took up most of the time. Nevertheless, we were able to complete the challenge.

Our team has planned to work on the indicators which are provided in the EARTH OBSERVATION DASHBOARD(which is relevant to our work). We have studied and interpreted the data that each indicator provides us along with the information given. We have also used some external sources(websites) to collect data relevant to the topic. We have divided the work among all of us so that each person has equal amount of research and information collection tasks. Based on each indicator, we have the estimated the environmental impacts due to the current pandemic. After collecting data and estimating the impacts, we have integrated our work and produced the final solution.

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Since we are attempting a storytelling challenge, we have not created an application to be integrated into the EARTH OBSERVATION DASHBOARD, our challenge was to interpret the environmental impacts due to ongoing coronavirus and we have performed that task diligently.

SOURCES FOR FLIGHT TRACKING DATA:

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/statistics

https://www.transtats.bts.gov/Data_Elements.aspx?Data=5

https://www.bts.gov/explore-topics-and-geography/topics/air-traffic-data#:~:text=%20Air%20Traffic%20Data%20%201%20US%20Air,Revenue%20Passenger-Miles%208%20Seasonally%20Adjusted%20Data%20More%20

We used these external sources to get data on the total number of flights in 2019,2020 and 2021 till date

SOURCES FOR INTERNET USAGE DATA:

https://www.statista.com/topics/1145/internet-usage-worldwide/#dossierSummary__chapter1

https://www.statista.com/topics/1145/internet-usage-worldwide/#dossierSummary__chapter5

We used these external sources to get data on the fraction or percentage of people using the internet.

SOURCES FOR CO2 EMISSION DATA:

https://www.businesstraveller.com/business-travel/2020/06/05/aviation-sees-the-highest-pandemic-drop-in-co2-emissions-research/

We used these external sources to get data on the reduction of concentration as well as percentage of CO2 in the atmosphere.

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