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H2O.ai Looks to Douse Wildfires With New AI Challenge

Wildfires rampage across millions of acres of U.S. land every year, threatening countless homes and lives and costing billions of dollars in damage. Many firms, institutions, and researchers have worked to bring computat Read more…

Big Data Tool Enables Real-Time Disaster Recovery Monitoring

The Southeast is bracing for a heavier-than-normal hurricane season while California continues to face down its second largest wildfire in recorded history – and with climate change continuing to worsen, that’s just Read more…

Deep Learning Clears the Skies for Volcano Monitoring

Major volcanic eruptions are rare, but potentially cataclysmic: in 2018 alone, a pair of volcanic eruptions in Guatemala and Indonesia killed at least 600 people. As in earthquake sensing, the underlying signals that def Read more…

Graphing West Coast Days of Darkness

These are dark days for residents of the U.S. Pacific Coast—literally. According to the New York Times, the Bear Fire near Oroville, Calif., “jumped an astonishing 230,000 acres overnight” between September 8 an Read more…

DOE Announces ‘First Five Consortium’ to Fight Natural Disasters with AI

As wildland fires tear across California and hurricane season starts to warm up, natural disasters are top-of-mind for many Americans. Predicting and managing these disasters is an ongoing challenge, and researchers are Read more…

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