/ceres

An Australian Wildfire Awareness webpage that tracks wildfires, presents relevant news feed and Twitter feed, and statistics

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Ceres

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Ceres is a web application dedicated to promoting and bringing awareness to the Austrailian bushfires. The web application includes daily map visualization and statistics of the bushfires, monthly news letters, and live twitter feed.

It started out as a freshman design project by Hung Do, Joey Huang, EJ Roberts, and Ao Wang and has been in development since early January 2020.

Table of Content

Features

To get a complete list of supported features, please visit our website.

Technologies Used

Front-end

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • Bulma - CSS Framework

Back-end

  • Python
  • Pandas

Automation

Data Collection

Installation

Cloning the repo:

git clone git@github.com:ow-wow-wang/ceres.git

Use the package manager pip to download Python libraries:

pip install -r requirements.txt

How does it work?

Ceres web scraps bushfire data from NASA's sensors, cleans the false positives' data and plots them onto the map. There's also a statistics portion where Ceres counts the fires for each of Australia's regions and measures the distribution of Fire Radiative Power (FRP). This process occurs twice a day.

Additionally, Ceres has a charity page to many, reputable charities trying to fight the fire and support Australia's people and wildlife.

But one of Ceres' goals is also to maintain the awareness of the bushfires, which is why we added a News Feed and Twitter Feed, gathering links using Python's News and Twitter API. The new news articles are shown every month and continually updating Twitter Feed.

User Manual

Systems Manual

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please take a look at our contributing guidelines if you're interested in helping!

Contributers

License

Acknowledgements

  • Our TA's for their endless support
  • Dr. Pirmann and the other Freshmen Design Sequence professors for their guidance