Cookie Consent by Free Privacy Policy website NASA, ESA, JAXA Host Hackathon to Study COVID-19's Environmental Effects
maggio 21, 2021 - NASA

NASA, ESA, JAXA Host Hackathon to Study COVID-19's Environmental Effects

Comunicato Stampa disponibile solo in lingua originale. 

The measures countries have taken in response to COVID-19, ranging from large-scale lockdowns to the mass deployment of personal protective equipment, have resulted in environmental effects. To study those, #nasa, #esa (European Space Agency), and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will host an Earth Observation Dashboard Hackathonfrom June 23-29, taking advantage of powerful Earth observation tools.

During the weeklong, virtual event, participants will create teams and solve various socioeconomic and environmental challenges using data from the dashboard gathered over the duration of the pandemic. All coders, entrepreneurs, scientists, designers, storytellers, makers, builders, artists, and technologists are encouraged to participate in the hackathon. Registration is now open.

Challenge topics will include air and water quality, economic, social, and agricultural impacts, greenhouse gas effects, and interconnected Earth system impacts.

The hackathon is launching a year after the agencies introduced the Earth Observing Dashboard, an interactive data resource that provides policymakers and the public with a unique tool to probe the short- and long-term impacts of pandemic-related restrictions implemented around the world.

"NASA, #esa, #jaxa represent a unique and valuable human asset: Earth-observing instruments in space that we can use every day to benefit society and advance scientific knowledge about our home planet," said Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA's associate administrator for science. "Our three space agencies realized that if we could combine forces, we could bring a more powerful set of analytical tools to understand the environmental, social and economic impacts of the global pandemic."

"In the face of the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, the three agencies created the Earth Observing Dashboard to release the joint analysis results of satellite data last June," said Koji Terada, vice president and director general for the Space Technology Directorate I at #jaxa. We would like to welcome many proposals to solve the challenges using this website."

"We have created a dashboard that allows us to have a time-series of critical information over different areas, and therefore compare information," said Toni Tolker-Nielsen, director of Earth Observation Programmes at #esa. "I am particularly glad to say that this is not only a European effort, we have joined forces with global space powers #nasa and #jaxa and really combined our assets."

Hackathon participants will interact with experts from #nasa, #esa, and #jaxa in chat channels and offer solutions to help improve the dashboard.

The Earth Observation Dashboard Hackathon is a NASA-led initiative organized in collaboration with Booz Allen Hamilton, Mindgrub and SecondMuse. For more information about the hackathon, visit:

http://www.eodashboardhackathon.org

News correlate

gennaio 10, 2024
luglio 20, 2023
marzo 23, 2023

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found a rare oddball event in an oddball place.A Fast Radio Burst (FRB)...

Comunicato Stampa disponibile solo in lingua originale. For the first time, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has observ...

Comunicato Stampa disponibile solo in lingua originale. Hubble monitors changing weather and seasons on Jupiter and Uranus23 March...

Ti potrebbe interessare anche

marzo 22, 2023
febbraio 06, 2023
febbraio 02, 2023

Comunicato Stampa disponibile solo in lingua originale. Researchers observing with the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope hav...

Comunicato Stampa disponibile solo in lingua originale. A previously unknown 100–200-metre asteroid — roughly the size of Rome’s C...

Comunicato Stampa disponibile solo in lingua originale. Astronomers using the #nasaesahubblespacetelescope have for the first time...