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Dans l’actualité | Planet Webinar
Natural Disaster Management: Using AI for Rapid Building Damage Assessment
AI + satellite data is helping authorities rapidly assess the extent of damage to buildings after disasters, enabling organizations to target their efforts to deliver critical aid. Webinar with Planet’s Andrew Zolli and Microsoft’s Juan M. Lavista Ferres.
Dans l’actualité | GeekWire
AI in Seattle: Coming Out of Stealth Mode
As a devastating fire raced through Lahaina last summer, planning for emergency aid and recovery was well underway, even before aid organizations could arrive. Aid workers knew just where to go in the ravaged town to make best use of…
Dans l’actualité | LinkedIn Article
A World Seen in Full is a Better World
When news of the earthquakes in Afghanistan broke in October 2023, Microsoft AI for Good Lab mobilized to support first responders with our rapid damage-assessment capabilities. We discovered something surprising in the course of this work: There were no up-to-date…
Dans l’actualité | UAE Today
AI technology can aid rescue efforts during natural disasters, experts say
Space technology and satellites can be used to prioritise the worst-hit areas during natural disasters and help rescuers save lives on the ground, a space conference heard. Although the AI technology used to scour thousands of images from disaster zones is…
Dans l’actualité | Forbes
An AI Model Tested In The Ukraine War Is Helping Assess Damage From The Hawaii Wildfires
Using satellite imagery by Planet, a Microsoft AI tool compared the pictures before and after the fire and made maps to help organizations like the Red Cross assess the damages.
Dans l’actualité | BBC News
Fighting forest fires with technology
Juan Lavista Ferres, chief data scientist at Microsoft’s AI For Good Lab, tells Tech Life how artificial intelligence can help predict wildfires.
Dans l’actualité | Maui News
Lahaina Wildfire Damage Evaluated Using Microsoft’s AI Solutions
Following the Lahaina wildfire’s impact, Microsoft’s AI for Good Research Lab has leveraged advanced AI solutions to help assess the damage incurred by the disaster. Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Chief Scientist and Lab Director at Microsoft AI for Good Research…
Dans l’actualité | Geekwire
Microsoft AI tool reveals swath of devastation from Maui wildfire
In Maui’s historic town of Lahaina, more than half of the community’s 2,810 buildings have been damaged by a wildfire that this week obliterated the landscape. More than 1,200 of the impacted structures were essentially destroyed. That’s according to research by…
Dans l’actualité | Fast Company
Companies adopting AI need to move slowly and not break things
As the surge of interest in artificial intelligence applications continues unabated since last fall’s launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, one can trace it spreading from the tech industry itself to every corner of corporate America. McKinsey’s new State of Organizations 2023 report has…