![]() ![]() She even managed to move the contents of her food stall to a neighbor’s concrete house that could withstand the high-velocity winds. “We usually come to know a cyclone’s predicted path 48 hours or so before it makes landfall. “We started conversations with Microsoft to see if we could use AI to identify these houses so we could spend more time on the ground helping people.” Manually collecting information about houses that’d be vulnerable is a very time-intensive task and we can, at best, evaluate 100 houses in a day,” says Raghav Ranganathan, technical director, SEEDS. ![]() ![]() SEEDS stands for the Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society. It was founded in 1994 and works with vulnerable communities to provide relief and rehabilitation after disasters. Microsoft launched AI for Humanitarian Action in 2018. It is a global grant program designed to help find solutions to challenges centered around disaster response, refugees, displaced people, human rights, and the needs of women and children. The AI model, called Sunny Lives, utilizes high-resolution satellite imagery of areas likely to fall under the cyclone’s path. It then applies advanced data analytics and machine learning to identify the most vulnerable houses. This enables SEEDS and its on-ground partners to pinpoint those who’d be at the highest risk from the cyclone and focus their outreach to those communities.Īccording to the United Nations, the global mean sea level has risen faster since 1900, than over any preceding century in at least the last 3,000 years. A report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released in August this year, declared a “code red” for humanity. ![]()
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