Space Apps Challenge 2017

• THE CHALLENGE:

When landslides hit

Design an easy-to- use tool to enable the public to discover and understand ground-slip

data and to submit their user observations to emergency managers.

This tool will:

-Use data from landslides all over the world

-Recognize features of disasters and other events, and observe similar characteristics

in other locations

-Use information on weather and soil and be able to detect heavy rains in places of

risk, as well as warn about a possibility of a landslide

-Simple, enabling people to have access to knowledge readily available, in addition to

collaborating with the environment of on-the- spot occurrences

-Be able to present possible proposals that make it difficult for land sliding to occur,

aiming at the safety of people living in risky conditions due to a lack of resources

• EXPLANATION

Society constantly faces problems with landslides, badly planned cities with

urbanization composed of structural works that are not compatible with the natural

characteristics and the cities can still not keep up with socioeconomic transformations.

People of low income are forced to live in places of risk due to lack of resources.

Knowing that it seems unviable for these people to move to a better place and out of

harms way, we have developed an App that makes it possible to bring more safety not

only to these people, but to every place where risks are detected based on geological

and climatological data that are analyzed by the tool, allowing people to be alerted to

the risk of landslides.

The tool will contain data from all the landslides that have occurred, which will help to

discover other similar risk locations based on the climate. It will be possible to define

when heavy rains will occur that may cause great chances of collapses. In addition to

an early warning, the tool will offer the user an easy understanding and proximity with

complementary information, which can also report on events. Users will also be able to

send photos in order to help other users. The tool will also have options that can

prevent disasters or at least somehow increase personal safety thus reducing the

chances of disasters that even with safety measures occur. The user will have a risk

alert. For people who will continue living in these risky areas this would be a step

forward, making it possible to decrease the number of deaths and catastrophes.

Finally, through our database with the various quantity of information acquired and

increased by the users themselves, it will be possible to better prepare people when

landslides hit.

• Reference

GITHUB : https://github.com/geeox96/Terra-Keepers.gitGITHUB