Krios | Polar Opposites
Awards & Nominations
Krios has received the following awards and nominations. Way to go!
Global Nominee
The Challenge | Polar Opposites
Design a data analysis and/or visualization tool to show the spatial and temporal changes in Arctic and Antarctic ice to a general audience.
Krios
Krios uses data from NASA's open data, to compare both the north and south pole's cryosphere over a period of time.
The Krios team came together to help build a solution for the "Polar Opposites" challenge. With climate change being a huge topic of debate and/or discussion we hoped to create a web application that would allow user's to view the cryosphere changes over a period of time. With NASA's open data, we were able to create a interactive website that will allow users who are not subject matter experts to view and understand the cryosphere changes.
Resources:
- Firebase
- HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, and ThreeJS
- NASA repository for polar data and other information about polar science at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) Distributed Active Archive Center - https://earthdata.nasa.gov/about/daacs/daac-nsidc
- ArcticDEM (digital elevation model) – This is a map of the land surface elevation for (nearly) the entire Arctic, at one snapshot in time
- IceBridge DEM – This map of the land surface elevation captures multiple points in time.
- Land, Vegetation, and Ice Sensor (LVIS) – Measures the height of vegetation in the polar regions.
- Gravity anomalies from AIRGrav – Measures how the gravity differs in local regions (which happens due to more or less local mass, e.g. mountains)
- IceBridge Image Gallery
- - https://open.nasa.gov/open-data/ (NASA open data)
- - https://www.kaggle.com/nsidcorg/glacier-inventory (Kaggle)
SpaceApps is a NASA incubator innovation program.