The Challenge | Don’t Forget the Can Opener!

Create an easy-to-use way for people to develop their own, custom checklists – both items and plans – for specific kinds of disasters. Use NASA images, videos, or data visualizations to illustrate each disaster type, to help people understand how to prepare.

APPocalypse

An easy way to be prepared to any catastrophic event: create your personal check list, discover the Earth disaster, learn how to act in case of emergency.

APPocalipse

LINK OF PRESENTATION: https://prezi.com/p/97n9wmaxy87n/

LINK OF SIMULATION: https://pr.to/L2F3EK/

We are a team of engineering students with the purpose of helping people to increase the knoweledge about natural disasters and emercency procedures. This can be possible using an App that exploit the satellite's data taken from Nasa archives and some videos to inform people. It also gives you a useful check list and some indications to be prepared in case of emercency.

What we have reached is an online simulation of the real App called Appocalypse, that shows the generic structure of the App and what we can mainly do using it.

As we have already said this is a simulation, so we collect the information necessary to build up the App but we haven't used all of it. We have the idea on how to use it in case we decide to develop a real Appocalypse.

Let's see some examples that show where we can use the information that we have collected in some sections of Appocalypse:

- In the Frequent Disaster section (in Home and Travel section) Appocalypse can use the data for statistical analisys to give the probability of a given natural disaster in selected place in the world.

- In the Globe section, after choosing the type of disaster, Appocalypse can show you a global map that marks the locations where the disaster has taken place. After clicking on an interested area Appocalypse can also show you images before and after the disaster.

Resources:

GENERAL INFORMATION:

https://maps.disasters.nasa.gov/

https://www.satimagingcorp.com/services/geographic-information-systems/

https://www.scossaditerremoto.it/kit-di-emergenza.html

https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA21091

www.proto.io

FLOODS:

https://earthdata.nasa.gov/earth-observation-data/near-real-time/hazards-and-disasters/floods

http://floodobservatory.colorado.edu/

BLIZZARD:

https://pmm.nasa.gov/data-access/downloads/gpm

https://pmm.nasa.gov/precip-apps

DROUGHT:

https://earthdata.nasa.gov/earth-observation-data/near-real-time/hazards-and-disasters/drought

HURRICANES:

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

FIRES:

https://earthdata.nasa.gov/earth-observation-data/near-real-time/firms/active-fire-data

EARTHQUAKE:

https://disasters.nasa.gov/earthquakes

http://www.earthquake.it/

http://www.mapsism.com/mappe_terremoti/monitoraggio-eventi-sismici/sismogrammi

VOLCANIC ERUPTION:

https://disasters.nasa.gov/volcanoes

http://www.mapsism.com/vulcani/Mappa-vulcani

https://earthquakes.volcanodiscovery.com/?L=12

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