AstroBros

Investigating tool for ecological disaster

Example: https://blackdotsolutions.com/blog/using-osint-in-environmental-investigations/

Idea is to build a website/tool that would help any concerned citizen/investigator/agency to find the root cause of a disaster, such as oil spill, illegal logging, contamination of rivers etc.

During the hackaton, we will focus on two solutions:

• oil spill
• deforestation / illegal logging

Steps:

• Find a recent oil spill and the coordinates. Find a zone without oil spill.
• Find a place with deforestation + a zone without.
• search online for possible methodology to analyze oilspills (https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2024/08/30/marine-oil-spill-detection-guide/)
• same for illegal logging / forest cover change
• find data source from Sentinel 2 and see if possible to fetch historical data for a specified zone -> this is "visual data"
• build a basic UI that would enable to see a map and select places.
• For now, we will only enable the tool for the coordinates found above.

Illegal logging tool

• Be able to pick an area (first step hardcoded area)
• get the data for a given timeline (also hardcoded)
• apply different algorithm/models to describe forest loss / whatever

Tooling

Backend:

• python
• mongo

Data sources

• Copernicus:
  • Co2 ->
  • Methane
  • Nitrous oxide
  • Fluorinated gases
  • Deforestation/Land use changes (??)
  • soot / black carbon
  • Ozone
  • Albedo Effect (Changes in Earth's Reflectivity)
  • Water Vapor
  • Urban heat islands
• AIS for boat localizations