Earth As Art
2014 Challenge
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Hashtags:
#earth, #earthasart
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Tags:
Imagery
Challenge Description
Over the decades, Earth-observing environmental satellites have provided invaluable information and beautiful images of the Earth from the vantage point of space. The challenge is to create a way for people to find beautiful images in the Earth-observing satellite image archives, nominate them, and let people vote for their favorites. An app might allow people to suggest and vote on new places or phenomena for Earth-observing satellites to collect images. The app can also let people select images to create their own personal “image albums” and then share images and albums.
Background
NASA created an e-book and mobile app called Earth as Art that features 75 stunning images of Earth from several satellites. Sensors on these satellites can measure light outside of the visible range, so the images show more than what is visible to the naked eye. The images are intended for viewing enjoyment rather than scientific interpretation.
This is your chance to make an app that lets people make their own images they select. It’s also an opportunity to leverage crowdsourcing techniques to select the images or share the albums. You can use images from the archives of imagery for Terra, Landsat, Aqua, EO-1, and Suomi NPP satellites. You can even use images that are not true-color.
Solution Ideas
Here are some ways for you to frame this solution:
Create a web app or mobile app that lets people choose a set of images they want to display. The app could let people group images of specific places; a single country, continent, or phenomenon; features like watersheds, coastlines, or deserts; or time sequences of a single location.
Create a way for people to combine the images into an e-book or other type of image album perhaps by using such services that are available on the Internet. Allow people to print, store, or share these photo collections.
Create a web app or mobile app that enables people to nominate and vote for their favorite images or on others’ photo albums.
An app might allow people to suggest and vote on new places or phenomena for Earth-observing satellites to collect images, or include the top images in a book or website.
Sample Resources
- Earth as Art e-book and mobile app: http://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/earth_art_detail.html#.UuWvZWQo5aE
- Earth as Art collection hosted by the USGS EROS Data Center: http://eros.usgs.gov/imagegallery/
- LANDSAT 8: http://landsat.usgs.gov/landsat8.php
- ASTER: http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/data.asp
- EO-1: http://eo1.usgs.gov/
- MODIS: http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/
- AQUA: http://aqua.nasa.gov/science/images_data.php
- Direct Readout Laboratory (direct broadcasts): http://directreadout.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/
- Earth observatory: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/
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The following projects are solving this challenge:
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BeautifulEarth
An app that will show the beautiful creation of God The PLANET EARTH. This app will show beautiful pictures of Earth taken over the past decades and make them available in the form of an app. This will include features that will help people realize the beauty and glory that Planet Earth has lost... Visit Project
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Art Planet
My project aims to collect information from the galleries of each of the missions gather artistic images of our planet "ASTER, Aqua ... etc" currently the ASTER gallery is the unique gallery presented, but can see each image and share it in social networks, in addition to filter by category to ma... Visit Project
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Art In Earth
# ART IN EARTH - This website help user can show the image from NASA for the Earth . - For that, user can recognize some events or changed of the earth throught time Visit Project
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artistic earth
This app shows images taken of the world from satellite in different categories and asks different questions based on that image. User can like and share images. Visit Project
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Incredible earth
The project aims to allow people to suggest and vote on images of new places or phenomena taken from Earth-observing satellites. - User will be permitted to group the images (create an album) with the available images. - Like/vote the images. - Categorize the images . - Create al... Visit Project
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Cats in Space
Cats in space is a image collecting and organizing project, incorporating Flickr, Imgur, and Reddit. Users are encouraged to upload, tag, and/or 'favorite'. images of cat-like, cat-inspired, or cat-related images of Earth or space. In addition to the Flickr, Imgur, and Reddit streams, an app is i... Visit Project
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EarthMe!
EarthMe! aims to compose people's photos with satellite images all about our wonderful blue planet in order to aware them on the variety of colours the Earth gathers beneath their feet, and wraps their environment. Visit Project
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Wonderful Earth
This project aims to achieve EARTH AS ART challenge specifications through five modules and also adding few innovative ideas in each of them! Visit Project
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MyCupola
The app name comes from the “Cupola” module on the ISS, a place where astronauts see and take pictures from the Earth. This app is a game that starts from the user location on a grided worldmap. Each player will try to travel over the adjacent grids, hitting the right area (North, South, East,... Visit Project
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Drod
This project aims to help users view pictures provided by NASA. In fact Drod is a game that could be run on the computer and android. it out up the pictures on the background of the screen, where the user should defend the beautiful landscape provided by the alien so to keep them on earth, be... Visit Project
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Art My Earth
Web application which provides browsing and sorting photos of Earth taken from space. Visit Project
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On My Earth
This project is a simple way of displaying some of the beautiful images that our satellites capture, as well as the images that are more familiar to us us Earthlings, Google Maps satellite view. Users are able to see a gallery of the NASA Earth as Art images, and touch the images to open a Lightb... Visit Project
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Watch your earth
El proyecto consiste en poner a disposición del público en general, fotografías tomadas por distintos satélites en una app web y móvil, esta unifica todas las fotos tomadas por los satélites y las expone de una manera amigable. Visit Project
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SEN EARTH
we have developed a web application in php which is Travert images slideshow vote these images. 1. Image slideshow 2. Voting images 3. Adding images Visit Project
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Young Cadet
Young Cadet as earlier mentioned is targeted towards kids. In this part of the world(Nigeria/West Africa). A lot of kids wanted to be an Astronauts at their growing stage but as years rolled by, they couldn't get enough knowledge to keep this dream alive. Young cadet solves the problem making the... Visit Project
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Romantic Flight on Satellite
this project is for an artistic project of Satellites Visit Project
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Project Young Cadet
Young Cadet as earlier mentioned is targeted towards kids. In this part of the world(Nigeria/West Africa). A lot of kids wanted to be an Astronauts at their growing stage but as years rolled by, they couldn't get enough knowledge to keep this dream alive. Young cadet solves the problem making the... Visit Project
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Yorbit
 Our Mission ======== The mission of Yorbit is to give people a deeper, more unique perspective to specific times and places in their lives through an easy-to-use tool for searching, sharing and personalizing beau... Visit Project
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Cosmic Art
We live in a beautiful planet, and daily satellites generate gorgeous pictures of earth. So why not share that beauty with the people around us? This app will allow users to share pictures taken by NASA's satellites using their social networking accounts. Here you can upload and download your fav... Visit Project
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