Projects
Active Projects
- Analyzing NASA Bolide database
- Research into applications of SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar), including oil spill detection and flooding detection
UAVSAR data courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech
Projects Under Consideration and Seeking Funding
We are considering the following projects, but having any kind of support or donations towards any of these could enable us to build these projects as a priority.
Please contact us - rjayl_28151 on Discord if you would like to discuss there projects or suggest other projects.
Project List
- NASA Datasets Information - Create information about various NASA data sets, and links, descriptions for using them.
- Asteroid Awareness - Detection and Mitigation - Create awareness about the risks of asteroid impacts, and discuss the importance of early detection and mitigation strategies.
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NASA Data Opportunities - Create information and motivation
for projects that could use NASA data to monitor / detect: (including visual images and optional quantitative analysis):
- River pollution, including water quality
- Oil spill thickness and analysis
- Vegetation and crop extent and analysis
- Crop types
- Plastic pollution in the ocean
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Comet C/2025 R2 SWAN
a) Compare visual magnitude to expected magnitude in a graph and consider if this might indicate the comet is breaking up.
b) Create size estimating model to estimate size range of comet nucleus.
See Comet Observation Database for Comet C/2025 R2 SWAN: www.cobs.si/comet/2659/ -
UAVSAR Processed High Definition Images on a Website
a) Making high definition NASA SAR(UAVSAR) imagery available for analysis in a processed format (single file), displaying RGB color model of the UAVSAR image(s) using various polarizations as colours.
b) Make available additional high resolution images of various landscapes, oceans, rivers that highlight crops, buildings, rivers, vegetation types, farming, oil spills or other pollution.
c) Experiment with techniques to highlight or quantify features including oil spill depth, flooding extent, and vegetation or crop type. - Asteroid Modelling and Analysis - Analyse and model forces on an asteroid taking into account light pressure / the Yarkovsky effect.
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Bolide (Meteor Impact Fireball) Data Analysis
a) Process bollide CSV file and display on the website.
b) Allow individual positions of impact events to be seen on Google Maps.
c) Do analysis of bolides and display additional useful information e.g. impact speed, ram pressure at peak brightness event.