The COVID-19 pandemic offered an unprecedented opportunity to look at changes in the Earth system in response to reduced human activity. Your challenge is to develop tools to better understand changes in the interconnected Earth system as seen through the EO Dashboard.
our project depends on how to show the data in the most creative way, also to help all kinds of people in the society to could know these data, also we have put our data in two different languages (Arabic - English) and we will provide more languages in our site soon,we have discussed in our site the positive points that the pandemic made in the earth system, we have discussed how the air became purer and how the water became less polluted because of the stopping of the factories, and how the aquatic life became better.
Our project is a direct source to view the challenge’s consequences with clear and various examples and statistics to prove the actual effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the environment from different perspectives. In fact, we displayed the development of air, water, and wildlife after and during total lockdown and quarantine due to the pandemic.
We developed a website that contains the positive effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the environment widely. We aimed to make a superior website that demonstrates the data in a neat way and in an organized manner.
That website is eventually crucial because it presents the long-term positive effect of the fatal side impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. It demonstrates the things that can lie down the grief at our dead.
Simply, the website is a platform that can open a door for the user to view a wide range of explanations, examples, and statistics about the observed positive outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It is a website that can be opened from a browser. Then you will be officially viewing all the collected data that is distributed in three articles.
We hope to spread the knowledge about the positive side of the crisis that we were experiencing. Also, hopefully, that the world may realize how much we benefited from that nearly two-year lockdown. That did actually happen as the dumping of the waste did partially stop, so they may look at how to find a substitutional way to get rid of the industrial wastes and the excess emissions of the greenhouse gases.
well, we decided to choose this challenge because we thought that we could collect more data on this challenge, and we will do better in this challenge, our approach is to make our site available to all kinds of people in society, as we made part for reading and another for listening to help blind people, also we made it available for people with Arabic language and we will provide other languages soon,
To build our website, we used HTML to structure the website and CSS to style it. The VS code was our choice to start coding. We used advanced CSS to make our website attractive. We made videos, recorded some records, and wrote articles to present our idea in different ways and to make the website usable for deaf and blind people.
we faced a lot of problems, as at first we did not know enough about the competition and how to work on our project, then we asked some people who were a competitor in a season before, to know some information about the competition, our achievements is that we could make a nice work and all of us is proud of what we did.
we have used a lot of space agency data in our project, also we have got the next part from one of the space agency data:
On February 28, we reported how decreases in industrial, transportation, and business activity since the coronavirus outbreak had reduced levels of atmospheric nitrogen dioxide (NO2) over China. But researchers note that a measurable change in one pollutant does not necessarily mean air quality is suddenly healthy across the country.
In February, news outlets reported unhealthy air pollution in Beijing, which was largely affected by airborne particulate pollution known as PM 2.5. As reported in the South China Morning Post, “weak winds, high humidity, and a strong thermal inversion had trapped bad air in the city.” NASA satellites also showed a high load of airborne aerosols. Measurements of aerosol optical depth depict how the abundance of natural or manmade particles in the air prevents light from traveling through the atmosphere to the ground.
It is no surprise that road traffic in China’s major cities has been lighter, as many people have been forced to stay home and public transportation has been shut down. Satellite imagery from Planet Labs captured scenes of reduced traffic and empty parking lots near the Wuhan train station and airport. Trains stopped running around January 22, when the first quarantines began. And compared to late January 2019, domestic flights within mainland China this year dropped by 60 to 70 percent.
we have got this part from https://www.nasa.gov/, also we have got other data from other sites.
https://yusufyasser1.github.io/men-in-black-website../
According to the major theme of the data and information in the Earth Dashboard, our solution could be integrated. It mainly talks about the positive effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. It can genuinely offer a decent amount of data to the Dashboard and help to deliver the knowledge to the Dashboard users.
After we browsed the Earth Observing Dashboard, we thought integrating our solution with the Dashboard will provide a new perspective. That perspective will benefit all the sides, us and the Dashboard users.
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This project has been submitted for consideration during the Judging process.