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Furiously Fast -

You Are My Sunshine

Providing the world with access to one of the most largest datasets of satellite data in the universe (that we know of).

Francesco

Vincenzi

Federico

Fusco

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Our Objective

Our main objective is to provide easily readable data to the general public by simplifying data fetched from the NASA POWER API, in the form of a user-friendly web interface which can be installed on any device with an internet connection and a browser (such as Chrome).

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How We’ve Achieved It

Our project, Solarize, is amongst one of the most user-friendly interfaces to access data from Nasa’s dataset. Each parameter contains an easy to understand definition of what the is being represented on the screen and use cases for that data (e.g. saving crops from dying due to frost). The interface utilizes the NASA POWER API, an enormous dataset of satellite information.

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Future Developments

Currently, we cannot provide every type of data provided by the POWER API, but if provided more time and constant maintenance, it could be possible to:

  • Include every parameter or even include data from other datasets (e.g. JAXA Himawari).
  • Avoid/or circumvent some rate-limiting problems, since the POWER API has a request limit at 30/min as of right now and doesn’t have a CORS policy.
  • Suggest to the user what type of panel to choose.
  • Add a sun-tracker which tells the user what time will the sun rise and set.

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Our Hackathon Experience

During the hackathon, we worked together to create a user interface for the NASA POWER API. The UI can be accessed by any browser on any device (yes, that includes your Samsung Smart Fridge) and can clearly render data in simple charts which are aided with descriptions of each parameter and their use cases.

Man, this thing is gonna be useless in 7 billion years.

-- Francesco Vincenzi

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