NASA Space Apps Challenge #Winning

NASA Space Apps Challenge #Winning

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Several of our HackBama members went and competed in the SpaceApps There was 3 divisions: High School College Professional Hackbama took first in college and professional divisions! Also overall first place. The project-firewatch can be found here: https://github.com/osteth/project-firewatch Team Members: Dutch Seth Wahle Thuy Pham Nick Hershey Jason Cuneo NASA Space Apps Challenge Submission for the And YOU can Help Fight Fires! challenge. Project-Firewatch integrates crowd sourced low cost hardware fire monitors with Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) from the MODIS satellite to provide users with granular accurate yet highly encompassing wildfire information that is easily accessible.   Sensors We put together prototype hardware sensors for the competition that anyone can build and contribute their crowdsource Fire data back to our database via the Project-Firewatch API. Orange pi…
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