Outsmarting Disaster


Foundation: Google.org

credit: Fast Co Exist

Nine of the world's 10 countries most vulnerable to flood risk are part of the Global South.

Once-in-a-century floods threaten some 1.81 billion people globally, and more than two-thirds of those people live in South and East Asia.

Google Research recently partnered with the United Nations to develop an AI system that can assess post-disaster damage from satellite imagery.

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