ai tool
proof of concept
STATUS: Just started
This page updates you on our progress
Training City Tegucigalpa
"caminante, no hay camino: se hace camino al andar"
Antonio Machado
Artificial intelligence tool at the service of
vulnerable communities for climate resiliency
in secondary fast urbanizing urban regions of the Global South
Product is a public flooding risk heat map for Resiliency Planning
location prediction of vulnerable communities
provides economical & automatic updates
communities complement mapping on the ground (COVID open)
what WE are doing
Where
Honduras
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Location of our Proof of Concept is Honduras: our training city is Tegucigalpa and our Testing City is TBD. Although Tegucigalpa is not fast urbanizing, it presents myriad climate issues and poverty
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Additionally, given that Hurricane Mitch struck in 1998, Tegucigalpa was center o f several studies that will be used to train for and to validate results
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We started developing this AI tool concept pre COVID. Now, COVID highlights the importance of using remote sensing tools
questions
More with less
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Can we, with 20% of info, achieve 80% of certainty using Machine Learning?
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Can we provide a userfriendly system that delivers fast and economical risk-heat- maps and its updates for secondary/tertiary cities?
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What does it take to adapt algorithms to other regions?
TECHnology
Deep neural networks
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Training City: Tegucigalpa, Honduras
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Testing City: TBD
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Data Sources: geospatial imagery (satellite, DEM) and open georeferenced datasets. We derived analytics-ready layers from these datasets such as topography, and distance to point of interest.
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Methods: Convolutional neural networks (U-net architecture) for classification and prediction for vulnerable communities and hybrid models for flooding susceptibility.
stage one
First stage: identification of informal settlements and vulnerable communities using machine learning, computer vision technique.
Output comparison with existing AIDB map.
Vulnerable Communities on Hillshade.
Tegucigalpa, Municipality of the Central District, and Comayaguela.
Elevation DEM graphic:
red shows highest; yellow shows lowest.
Tegucigalpa, Municipality of the Central District, and Comayaguela.
