AI Helps Detect Disaster Damage From Satellite Imagery

Originally published at: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/ai-helps-detect-disaster-damage-from-satellite-imagery/

Manually assessing damage in areas most affected by a disaster is challenging and time-consuming. To help produce more accurate and faster data for rescue workers and aid organizations, researchers from Facebook and CrowdAI developed a deep learning-based algorithm that can automatically estimate the level of damages an area has suffered. “The goal of this research…