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Improving flood response in Somalia through remote sensing

Somalia floods early warning disaster risk management vulnerable communities food security

2023-04-04

Abstract Somalia, like many countries, is affected by frequent climate-related hazards such as floods, droughts and tropical stor...
Machine Learning Model Doubles Accuracy of Global Landslide "Nowcasts"

Machine Learning Model global landslide LHASA

2023-04-04

Abstract Every year, landslides – the movement of rock, soil and debris down a slope – cause thousands of deaths and billions of d...
Assessment report launched with stark warnings that drought could be next pandemic

drought disaster risk management

2023-04-04

Abstract The UN agency responsible for leading global disaster risk management today warned that drought affects more people than...
NASA and Pacific Disaster Center developing early flood warning system

Flood Warning system Remote sensing technologies and models Pacific Disaster Center NASA

2023-04-04

Abstract NASA’s Earth Science Applied Sciences Disasters program and the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) have joined forces, with ...
Turning pictures of buildings into better disaster preparedness

Artificial intelligence building recognition BRAILS computer vision

2023-04-04

Abstract Researchers from the National Science Foundation’s SimCenter, an engineering community focused on modeling the impact of...
AI to Assist in Floods

Artificial intelligence floods machine learning Tohoku University flooded building

2023-04-04

Abstract Adding up to all the things that Artificial Intelligence is capable of doing, rescue during floods can be added to the li...
Research Inside Hill Slopes Could Help Wildfire and Drought Prediction

Maryland National Science Foundation Jackson

2023-04-04

Abstract AUSTIN, Texas – A first-of-its-kind study led by The University of Texas at Austin has found that rock weathering and w...
Fujitsu Leverages World’s Fastest Supercomputer ‘Fugaku’ and AI to Deliver Real-Time Tsunami Prediction in Joint Project

Artificial intelligence tsunami real-time prediction supercomputer Fujitsu

2023-04-04

Abstract The International Research Institute of Disaster Science at Tohoku University, the Earthquake Research Institute at the ...
Amazon rainforest fires got even worse last year

rainforest satellite imagery Fire and Smoke

2023-04-04

Abstract Fires in the Amazon reached devastating new levels in 2020, new NASA satellite imagery shows. The space agency develope...
ASEAN achieves a milestone towards regional disaster risk reduction

Disaster Risk Management Climate Change

2023-04-04

Abstract The year 2020 was a difficult year for Southeast Asia which, in addition to dealing with the surge of the COVID-19 pande...

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