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NASA Space Apps Challenge 2015 出題テーマ

チャレンジカテゴリー「宇宙」

OUTER SPACE #outerspace

【A-1】3-2-1リフトオフ:ロケットを発射!/3-2-1 LIFTOFF: LAUNCH THAT ROCKET!
ロケット発射の決定に関連するすべての変数を取得する開発します。 Develop an experience that captures all the variables involved with making the launch decision.

【A-2】空中爆発データ/AIRBURST DATA VISUALIZATION
Create a way of visualizing the threat of atmospheric airbursts using newly released data gathered in the Bolide study. Build on any open source solutions you find, or create your own.

【A-3】小惑星 2025-2100 未来計画/ASTEROIDS 2025-2100 - FUTURE HISTORY
NASA is looking for creative ways to show the value of asteroids as a destination for exploration that are just as valuable as the Moon and Mars in terms of developing space infrastructure, as they have no gravity well.

【A-4】オリジナル小惑星ミッション/CREATE YOUR OWN ASTEROID MISSION
Develop an asteroid mission and design the spacecraft. Implement the spacecraft and mission with the space flight simulator. Simulate the mission and identify future improvements for the simulation.

【A-5】/DEEP SPACE CAMSAT
Design and model a feasibility demonstrator of a nano-satellite (e.g. cubesat) that can orbit and take pictures of deep space spacecraft during events of interest, e.g. planetary flybys.

【A-6】宇宙の幸せな瞬間/HAPPY MOMENTS FROM SPACE
This challenge aims at developing an application to send congratulation messages personalized for the recipient with images from space sensors stored in the science archives.

【A-7】小惑星画像の神経形態/NEUROMORPHIC STUDIES OF ASTEROID IMAGERY
We want you to design an automated mechanism for processing photometric studies of Asteroids (i.e. Light curves) using computer vision, pattern recognition or neuromorphic technologies.

【A-8】ロボット観測所/ROBOTIC OBSERVATORY
Develop software applications and scripts that make an open hardware robotic observatory a souped-up Asteroid Hunting Machine.

【A-9】トランジエントウォッチ – アクティブなニュートロンスター - 中性子星と携帯電話の黒い穴に関する毎日のニュース/TRANSIENT WATCH – DAILY NEWS ON ACTIVE NEUTRON STARS AND BLACK HOLES ON YOUR MOBILE PHONE
Develop a mobile phone app to provide interested astronomers with ‘daily news’ on the transient high-energy sky, based on information available from public pages at NASA, the European Space Agency, the Japanese Space Agency, etc.

【A-10】小惑星の空の視覚化/VISUALIZE THE ASTEROID SKIES
Create data aggregators and visualizations of asteroid data in meaningful ways that can educate the public about the need to explore asteroids and protect the Earth from them.

チャレンジカテゴリー「地球」

EARTH #earth

【B-1】水マッピング/CLEAN WATER MAPPING
The challenge is to improve mapping of drinking water resources. This could include development of a crowdsourcing app to monitor and map: potable water availability (well/stream/reservoir levels as measured by local people/ organizations), water quality,

【B-2】作物アラート - 栽培者から学ぶ/CROP ALERT – LEARNING FROM THE GROWERS
Develop a mobile/web app/SMS capability to help growers who face challenges from crop pests and diseases.

【B-3】食べ物の行方/FOOD DIRECTIONS
This is a challenge to identify and visualize the current capacity and potential of countries to be self-sufficient in the provision of food for their populations, and to map how current global food needs are met through reliance on international food tra

【B-4】森林モニターマッピング/FOREST MONITOR MAPPING
This challenge asks you to enable crowdsourced local data to contribute to assessments of land cover change and the contributing factors.

【B-5】私を一人にして/LEAF ME ALONE
Develop a tool to quantify and classify the amount of injury to the individual leaves of ozone-sensitive plants.

【B-6】空の色/MY SKY COLOR
Create a tool that lets people record the color of the sky using consistent and qualitative standards at a specific location.

【B-7】オープンソース航空交通追跡/OPEN-SOURCE AIR TRAFFIC TRACKING
The challenge is to build an open-source air traffic tracking tool that allows users to select a particular flight and see out-the-window or other views of the aircraft and airspace.

【B-8】河川情報マッピング/STREAM GAZER
Animate or visualize changes in streamflow across the US through time on a GIS layer of the stream and river network.

【B-9】山火事・火山噴火・氷山の割れ/VOLCANOES, ICEBERGS, AND CATS FROM SPACE
We need you to develop an app to crowdsource the discovery of “interesting” natural events as observed from space using data from NASA’s Earth observation satellites

チャレンジカテゴリー「人間」

HUMANS #humans

【C-1】3D宇宙デバイス/3D ASTROMED DEVICES
We need your help modeling medical devices that will not only be useful in space but also for remote health medicine situations on Earth.

【C-1】宇宙空間での動き/BODIES IN SPACEY MOTION
Develop an experience where motion is an input from a player as they try to complete space related tasks, such as: an off Earth astronaut on the International Space Station, Mars, Moon or other bodies performing exploration, research, and maintenance task

【C-2】聞こえますか?宇宙の音/CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? SPACE-Y SOUNDS
Develop an interactive tool to leverage NASA audio files from space missions in new and innovative ways, from arts and entertainment to science and engineering. Your solution could be a new audio capability or platform to feature, consume, enhance, or alt

【C-3】データ宝探し/DATA TREASURE HUNTING
Devise a clever way to discover good keywords to describe the potential, hidden, secondary uses of NASA’s open data.

【C-4】宇宙探検家の代謝観察/FIT AS A MOOSE: METABOLIC OBSERVATIONS OF SPACE EXPLORERS
Develop a citizen science tool that ties astronaut health onboard the International Space Station and to health and exercise options on Earth.

【C-5】サマンサ・クリストフォレッティ/FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES
We’d love for you to create or enhance an interactive app, both by visualizing the data gathered while Samantha has been in orbit, i.e. all the waves and greetings from Earth as she orbits over head.

【C-6】オリジナル宇宙食/PRINT YOUR OWN SPACE FOOD
Think Food Replicators, from an early sci-fi show. Investigate the benefits and feasibility of allowing astronauts to print their own food on the International Space Station or other space facility.

【C-7】宇宙ステーション遠隔測定アプリ/SPACE STATION TELEMETRY APP
This challenge is to build on-top of the actual Space Station telemetry data stream

【C-8】スペースウェアラブル:打ち上げと研究のための設計/SPACE WEARABLES: DESIGNING FOR TODAY’S LAUNCH & RESEARCH STARS
Your challenge is to design wearable clothing and accessories that could be useful for the engineers, technicians, and scientists involved with ground processing spacecraft and rockets and/or researchers, both on and off world, doing lab or field work.

【C-9】スペースグローブ:宇宙船のジェスチャと音声コマンド/SPACEGLOVE: SPACECRAFT GESTURE AND VOICE COMMANDING
We’d like you to produce a new technique for controlling a computer application via one or more wearable devices (e.g. smartphone) that wirelessly connects to the main computer and responds to gestures and voice commands.

【C-10】サバイバー:火星溶岩チューブ/SURVIVOR: MARS LAVA TUBES
Develop a game allowing players to explore lava tubes on Mars.

チャレンジカテゴリー「ロボット」

ROBOTICS #robotics

【D-1】ロボットロボットロボット/ROBOTS ROBOTS ROBOTS
Create your own Earth-based robotics competition: build a robot, program it, and create your own competition with friends, co-workers, and/or members of your community

【D-2】宇宙センサー:SENSOR YOURSELF
Put together a stream of applicable sensor data of your choice to guide forward movement or to gauge when to stop based on danger or impediments. Use your imagination.

【D-3】スペースボットステレオビジョン/SPACEBOT STEREO VISION
Apply stereo vision data from space in new ways and use the data output from this challenge to create a data dashboard, visualization, infographic, app, software tools, or your own Earth-based robot.

【D-4】宇宙船の熱消費量/SPACECRAFT THERMAL POWER CONSUMPTION
The goal of this operational prototype is to better estimate the power that will be consumed by the thermal subsystem in order to determine the power available for doing science.

【D-5】優しいドローン/ZERO GEE BEE – YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD DRONE
Design and simulate a drone (e.g. quad-copter) to be used on a space station, or another large manned spacecraft, to assist the crew with moving items (5 lb / ~2kg) around the facility.