Filipino-made app gauging COVID19 lockdown impact wins NASA hackathon
For the third straight year, a team from the Philippines landed a top spot in the Space Apps challenge of the United States National Aeronautics Space Administration , which held a special virtual hackathon in May focused on solutions for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Before economic reports are released, the app tries to paint a more immediate picture by combining data on night light and pollution levels, infection rates, and mobility monitoring-- all of which are open-sourced from satellites and online portals. "If we can piece that together-- economy opening up without triggering a second wave of the pandemic, and managing [the] environmental impact [of our] recovery, that was sophisticated enough, palaban 'to .
August's release of the Philippines' 2nd-quarter GDP revealed the country plunging into its first recession in more than 30 years.While the team admitted the recently released data was "shocking" and way off the app's predictions, they said the results were also instructive. Tobia said this additional resource, which would also process the data for the user, would serve to help them scale up G.I.D.E.O.N.'s scope and capability.The weekend hackathon in May, which was co-sponsored by the Canadian, European, French and Japan space agencies and involved 15,000 participants from 150 countries, was its first to be done virtually amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Team iNON, creator of the fisherfolk-assisting ISDApp, became the first Philippine winner of the challenge in 2018.
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