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Meet the winners of STAC Overflow: Map Floodwater from Radar Imagery Challenge

Meet the winners who were best able to detect floodwater using synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) imagery! These winners developed solutions that can help to strengthen early warning systems and direct emergency relief.

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How to Map Floodwater from Radar Imagery using Semantic Segmentation - Benchmark

We'll show you how to tune a U-Net model to measure flood extent using Sentinel-1 synthetic-aperture radar imagery.

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Meet the winners of Wind-dependent Variables: Predict Wind Speeds of Tropical Storms

Meet the winners who were best able to estimate the wind speeds of tropical storms at different points in time using satellite images.

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How to Use Deep Learning to Predict Tropical Storm Wind Speeds - Benchmark

We'll show you how to start predicting wind speeds for our latest disaster preparedness challenge.

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Meet the winners of the Open Cities AI Challenge

Meet the winners with the best building segmentation models and ethical perspectives for disaster risk management

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Meet the winners of the Open AI Caribbean Challenge

Meet the winners who were best able to map disaster risk from aerial imagery!

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Segmenting Buildings for Disaster Resilience - Benchmark

We'll show you how to start detecting building outlines for our latest disaster resilience challenge.

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Mapping Disaster Risk from Aerial Imagery - Benchmark

In this post we'll show you how to start working with aerial imagery to classify the roof material of buildings in St. Lucia, Guatemala, and Colombia.

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Richter's Predictor - Benchmark

In this post we'll show you how to start using data science to predict the extent of earthquake damage!

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