EXPERIENCE ECOTOPIA

Mapping populations subject to injustice is a daunting task in itself; integrating remote sensing data along with local input from crowd-sourcing onto a map is harder. As part of NASA International Space Apps Challenge 2021, our team WeShowedUpAgain decided to embark on this challenging endeavor by choosing to work on the challenge Space for Change. We considered the Nile Basin water crisis and the related environmental injustice as a case study for our project. We developed a user-friendly interface, a mobile app that would raise awareness about such communities as well as a website that consists of risk maps formed using numerical algorithms and data obtained from NASA, SEDAC, and JAXA. Using awareness techniques and incentives to people from other countries and NGOs, the plan is to gather donations from people around the world and help use them for the advancement of such marginalized communities. The app is a simple way to present relevant information to the general public and attract fundings. We aspire to implement EcoApp and EcoMap in other marginalized localities subject to environmental injustice!