Inspiration
-640k tons of fishing gear is lost or abandoned every year -Causes death of sea life due to entanglement -Negative economic impact due to clean up and lost revenue
What it does
Provides a app presented as a game so that everyday users can provide information on marine debris, including ghost gear. There will also be a publicly available API for researches or experts to access any debris data gathered by the smartphone app.
How we built it
This project was built as a smartphone app using ionic to wrap an angular front end application. The backend is written using node.js.
Challenges we ran into
Implementing the mapping feature for the smartphone app posed a significant challenge. Interoperability between the framework we used with the GIS functionality was limited.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We were able to provide a proof of concept for an idea which will bring together everyone regardless of expertise in identifying ghost gear.
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