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Space Apps Challenge 2020

We are The Simulators

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Challenge

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Where There’s a Link, There’s a Way

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Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, there has been a proliferation of websites and portals developed to share resources about the topic. Your challenge is to find innovative ways to present and analyze integrated, real-time information about the environmental factors affecting the spread of COVID-19.

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Idea

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  • Take various environmental factors (country flight data, temperature, humidity, water quality, population density, etc) and combine that with COVID-19 data (reported cases, recoveries, deaths, etc etc etc).
  • Visualise this in a way, shape or form for everyday users to digest such as heatmaps.
    • Show in real time (current reported data)
    • Allow users to toggle which factors on and off on the sidebar

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Solution

  • We have implemented a web application that showcases a map that contains near real time information of population density, land surface temperature, night time lights and UV radiation heat map layers provided by NASA.
  • We allow the users to have as much control of the information that is displayed on the map as much as possible.

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Technology

Frontend

https://github.com/lssl4/TheSimulatorsFrontEnd/tree/map

  • React UI to build the app
  • GIBS API used to pull satellite images
  • OpenLayers library used to layer over images
  • Bootstrap
  • Node.js

Backend

https://github.com/davidlawson7/simulators-cloud

  • Graphql server hosted used Azure Function App
  • Pull COVID-19 data/datasets, combine with environmental/social data from Sentinel Hub, Meteomatics, Aviationstack, etc over time axis
  • Serve to client via single API, in both real-time and a collection of historical pieces.