The COVID 19 pandemic has impacted the way the world works, and large-scale lockdowns, the shift to work-from-home arrangements, as well as the increase in medical waste would have corresponding effects on the environment.
NASA, the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are therefore calling all coders, scientists, entrepreneurs, designers, storytellers, technologists, and space enthusiasts on a challenge to find out just what those environmental effects are.
At the all-virtual, global Earth Observation Dashboard Hackathon, which will hold from June 23rd to 29th, the participants will have to form virtual teams and solve one of several challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic using data from the Earth Observing Dashboard (the “EO Dashboard” for short).
The EO Dashboard is an interactive data resource that gives the public and policymakers a unique tool to probe the short-term and long-term impacts of pandemic-related restrictions implemented around the world through the lens of Earth observation satellites.
They will interact with experts from NASA, ESA, and JAXA in official chat channels, and then submit projects. The winning teams will have the chance to incorporate their solutions into the EO Dashboard – making a lasting impact on its long-term legacy!
The agencies launched the dashboard last year to provide data to policy-makers and the public from their Earth-observing satellites. The purpose is to give the public access to a tool to be able to study the “short- and long-term impacts of pandemic-related restrictions implemented around the world.”
Challenge Topics:
- Air quality
- Water quality
- Economic impact
- Agricultural impact
- Greenhouse gas
- Interconnected Earth system impact
- Social impact
Interested persons can now register to participate, while everyone else will likely hear about the results and the solutions the teams come up with after the event.
