HeatIslandHero is a website that allows users to search for urban heat island impact and sensitivity data accross census tracts in Los Angeles County. This data will be displayed both on a map and in list format to the user. HeatIslandHero also searches the relevant census tracts for buildings that are good candidates for the addition of green roofs in the area and displays these to the users.
This project was created at the AECtech Hackathon 2023 in Los Angeles by the following collaborators.
Below is an image showing the initial user interface, and an image showing the interface once the user has run a query.
The system demo video can be downloaded using the following link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11aIrgMOXyhkYbTGYW17ciapS4pWGL46F/view
- Create a file named
secrets.jsoninside of theserverdirectory. The contents of the file should be as follows:
{
"gpt-token" : "<YOUR-OPEN-AI-TOKEN-HERE>"
}
- In the root directory run
pip install -r requirements.txt - To run the backend server
cd server, then executeflask run
Check out our data folder for the downloadable csv, and geojson data, as well as the merged dataset that was used to create the SQL database.
- UHI, health index and census data for LA county https://cal-heat.org/download
- Open Streets Map https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=5/38.007/-95.844
- UHI Indec raster map https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=1b6cad6dd5854d2aa3d215a39a4d372d