NASA SERVIR-Nepal Air Quality Explorer UI/UX Challenge

SERVIR Mekong has recently launched the Air Quality Explorer that is a very important free service and tool to forecast air quality in the region that is available to everyone (open science). This tool can be ported to an app with improved UI/UX (user interface and user experience) that could bring greater awareness to the public as well as bring opportunity for private business to make money thru advertising on the app or adding additional resolution or data that could be worthy of monetary subscription to private individuals. A competition to build an application and improve UI/UX will also provide the SERVIR network around the world with ideas and tools to help improve other services and tools.
The purpose of this project was to develop a mobile application and a full-feature website that improves upon the existing user interface for the SERVIR-Mekong Air Quality Explorer tool that combines ground, satellite data, and model outputs to enable monitoring and forecasting of air quality in Thailand. The new mobile application and full-feature website will be built upon the existing underlying data architecture. Changes to the backend system and the data architecture were out of scope. There are two primary audiences for a new UI/UX: - Public. This type of user needs a basic interface that provides the forecasts with some basic parameter manipulation for location and other variables. - Expert User/Scientist/Researcher. This type of user needs to be able to manipulate data (present and historic) extensively for analysis and forecasting of Air Quality conditions.

This is a mature technology (TRL 7+) — the realistic path in is usually NASA's Technology Transfer Program: licensing an existing NASA patent, or a Space Act Agreement to use NASA facilities/expertise directly. NASA also runs a startup licensing program with no upfront fee for companies formed to commercialize a specific NASA technology.

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