How Microsoft’s AI Could Help Prevent Natural Disasters
Recently, Allenby developed another tool to help predict, plan, and prepare for future floods:
a first-of-its-kind, high-resolution map showing what’s on the ground—buildings, pavement, trees, lawns—across 100,000 square miles from upstate New York to southern Virginia that drain into Chesapeake Bay.
The map, generated from aerial imagery with the help of artificial intelligence, shows objects as small as 3 feet square, roughly 1,000 times more precise than the maps that flood planners previously used.
WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/how-artificial-intelligence-could-prevent-natural-disasters/