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Amateur Drone Videos Could Aid in Natural Disaster Damage Assessment

Natural disaster damage assessment amateur drone videos artificial intelligence Carnegie Mellon University

2020-09-29

Abstract A team of CMU researchers are using AI to develop a system that automatically identifies buildings in drone footage of na...
Memorandum of Understanding is signed between DRRKS and IRDR IPO

The Memorandum of Understanding Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service Integrated Research on Disaster Risk

2020-08-31

Abstract On August 7th, 2020, the Memorandum of Understanding (the MoU) is signed between the Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge S...
ANNOUNCEMENT: Launch of a Quick Risk Estimation Tool to help small businesses understand their risk

Drought Earthquake Cyclone

2020-08-31

Abstract BANGKOK – The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) launched an online Quick Risk Estimation (QRE) Tool to help ...
Detecting and responding to incidents with images

Artificial intelligence computer vision model images social media MIT

2020-08-31

Abstract At the upcoming European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) conference, researchers from MIT and QCRI are presenting a ...
Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service Platform Released Scientific Data Catalog

Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service scientific data

2020-08-28

Disaster Risk Reduction Knowledge Service Platform has released 184 scientific data sets. Its catalog can be accessed on https://...
Statement on the explosion in Beirut, Lebanon

Hazards Technical Disaster

2020-08-11

Abstract Geneva, 6 August 2020 - The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction Mami Mizutori exp...
Field work for land degradation along China-Mongolia railway (Mongolian section)

Mongolian

2020-08-10

Land degradation is an important ecological and environmental problem facing the whole world. It is also one of the indicators of ...
AI taught to rapidly assess disaster damage so humans know where help is needed most

Artificial intelligence disaster damage assessment convolutional neural network model post-disaster aerial images

2020-07-28

This photo shows the distribution of damage estimated by the convolutional neural network model for Mashiki town in the 2016 Kum...
COVID-19 crisis is an opportunity for cities resilience

Hazards Epidemic & Pandemic

2020-06-30

Abstract The spread of COVID-19 around the world has placed cities at center stage in the response to the virus and its unpreceden...
Worst natural disasters of 2015---Massive earthquake devastates Nepal

natural disaster earthquake Nepal

2020-06-09

About 150 major natural disasters affected millions of people all over the world in 2015. Asia again bore the brunt of these disa...

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