Volcanoes, Icebergs, and Cats from Space

2015 Challenge

Create Project Solving this Challenge


  • Hashtags:

    #earth, #EarthView, #intermediate

    Contact:

    [email protected]

    Tags:

    Imagery, Platform, Data Visualization


    Background

    The world is a big place. And there’s a lot to see. Too much to see, in fact. NASA’s fleet of Earth-observing satellites looks at the entire planet every day, silently observing volcanoes erupt, icebergs calve, and cat-shaped clouds form. Some of these events are found by scientists looking for them, but many more go unnoticed due to the sheer volume of satellite imagery available. Everyone finds different aspects of our planet interesting; and this challenge encourages you to find and share from your own perspectives.

    Challenge

    We need you to develop an app to crowdsource the discovery of “interesting” natural events as observed from space using data from NASA’s Earth observation satellites -- such as wildfires burning, volcanoes erupting, or icebergs cracking. If all of you are helping us look for Earth events, by using a common interface you create with this challenge, we can discover more together than a few scientists can discover alone. And, we can share your discoveries with the world.

    Considerations

    • The solution can be a prototype app that encourages users to interactively browse any set of NASA’s satellite imagery to find and tag “interesting” events.
    • “Interesting” is in the eye of the app designer such as a “Hot or Not” app for volcanoes or an interface to find the most cat-shaped clouds being formed.
    • The solution can also use a scoring system to encourage competition amongst users.
    • Examples include an interface to “vote up” or “vote down” user-submitted events or providing bonus points to users who are the first to find a new event.


    Sample Resources(Participants do not have to use these resources, and NASA in no way endorses any particular entity listed).


  • The following projects are solving this challenge:

    • Space or Not

      Find the most exciting pictures of the universe! Visit Project

    • eval

      Objetivo, ayudar al público a conocer los eventos naturales que ocurren a su alrededor, e incluso glovalmente, en formas de alertas. Visit Project

    • NaturEvent

      This project aims to provide users an application that uses Earth images from NASA to spot and tag areas like volcanoes, glaciars, etc. Visit Project

    • Discover Earth

      An Android App to discover interesting events happening in Earth. Visit Project

    • F.A.Th.E.R

      Though our application might work on Earth, our main goal is to gather information about other planets (starting with Mars) so we can learn about the natural events on other planets. Visit Project

    • T-Drone

      The main purpose of this project is to collect data of different volcanoes around the globe. Furthermore pictures will be uploaded to mobile applications so that people can vote the picture and read some details regarding the volcano. This will be possible with the use of an autonomously drone wi... Visit Project

    • planet hunt

      Teaching our platform with machine learning to deliver better results - finding the most stunning pictures. Using competition and gamification with an intuitive interface the website persuades everybody to participate. You want to join our team?! Just send an email to **[email protected] Visit Project

    • Cats From Space

      We hope to crowdsource the discovery of near real-time events on Earth, in addition to a fun social sharing aspect ("Does this look like a cat from space? Yes, yes it does."). Visit Project

    • SpaceWatchers

      SpaceWatchers is an interactive crowdsource android application game that observes natural events from space using images from satelites in order to dicoces interesting events of our planet Visit Project

    • MAR

      This project is made by these 4 parts. 1st. Find human face by machine learning based image recognition. We use Microsoft Azule and cloud over 100 instances. And not only usual machine learning, but also try to use IBM WATSON. 2nd. Most difficult points of Machine learnings are data v... Visit Project

    • Spy Glass

      A user and content creator mobile app using aggregated satellite imagery. Images can be shared among all social media platform and rated upon for daily 'trends' or popularity. Visit Project

    • Maintaining life in space with the most important organism based on a story from rivers and oceans

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    • Mapstagram

      EpiCloud is platform for collecting and rating the most awesome pictures from NASA satellite. Visit Project

    • PinCat

      Capture images of landscapes from satellites, mark it and share them with your friends and everyone else :D Visit Project

    • CloudKittens

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    • Koan

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    • MyNep (My Natural Event Platform)

      Live Project Link: http://mynep.eu-gb.mybluemix.net/ MyNEP solves tens of issues that the students, professors and any kind of researchers are facing with. People will be able to reach the data from an individual source. MyNEP allows users to see the data from an official NASA Observatory and ... Visit Project

    • Cats in Space!

      The Cats in Space! project began as part of the 2014 NASA Space Apps Challenge, and we had so much fun we decided to build on the idea again this year! Last year we focused on social media interaction, and we started on a game, but we ran out of time before it was functional. This year, we wanted... Visit Project

    • TagEarth

      The tagEarth Project proposes, a network of colaboration where users will help us identifying and tagging Satellite imagery provided by NASA’s Earthexplorer data base. The main objective of the Project is to optimize the analysis speed of NASA’s Satellite imagery. By dividing the problem of E... Visit Project

    • Epicloud

      EpiCloud is platform for collecting and rating the most awesome pictures from NASA satellite. Visit Project

    • FromSpace

      The purpose of the game is to see some events on the Earth from the satellite point of view, their activity in the moment and some historical notes. Visit Project

    • Eyes of Time

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    • SkyGlass - Enjoy the universe

      Our project aims to achieve: To create a new app which is user friendly, fast and accessible for everyone : from those very scientifically adept to those who are lesser in their knowledge of this field but still have strong interest and passion in knowing more about planet or the solar system... Visit Project

    • Space Tag

      The project develops a simple, easy to use website that uses crowdsourcing to determine 'interesting' and beautiful images of the Earth. As of now, the images are solely from GIBS Imagery, but this can be easily expanded to include images from other webpages, and potentially include images that a... Visit Project

    • iLaika

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    • SkyGlass

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    • spreddit

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    • Redspace

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    • We All Care

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    • Cats and Volcanos

      -The solution aims to implement a website that encourages users to interactively browse a Google map to find and tag interesting events. Our Goal is to make the website as encouraging as possible by adding a scoring system where users can rate and comment on the events found by other users. -O... Visit Project

    • Stellar views

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    • CATSAT

      CatSat is a crowd sourced NASA imagery discovery site & app. Gamification- Images of interesting natural events on Earth are to be voted on by the public on social media. Zoom into any location on the satellite map viewer, take advantage of the map’s high resolution to search for interestin... Visit Project

    • Finder

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    • World Connection

      World Connection.. Explore and share your world. Spanish Una aplicación web social para encontrar eventos naturales interesantes en el mundo, existen dos maneras de hacerlo, compartir y descubrir. Compartir: Aquí podrás compartir un evento natural interesante que te rodea, como la lluvi... Visit Project

    • Space Hunters: Earth Exploration

      Space Hunters: Earth Exploration is a tile-based set of puzzles where players identify distinctive features of satellite images of earthly events such as volcanoes and storms. Each puzzle is shown the player one tile at a time, where each tile is chosen at random. To successfully complete each pu... Visit Project

    • Can You See

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    • Brainterstellar

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    • NatEv Explorer

      Earth is pictured every day and it is impossible for a few scientists to find most of the natural events from the sheer volume of satellite imagery available. Crowdsourcing the exploration would make this challenge possible. NatEv Explorer aims to achieve that by providing an interactive web-ba... Visit Project

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