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Deep Learning and Satellite Imagery: DIUx Xview Challenge

January 28, 2019 • Blog

Ritwik Gupta

In 2017 and 2018, the United States witnessed a milestone year of climate and weather-related disasters from droughts and wildfires to cyclones and hurricanes. Increasingly, satellites are playing an important role in helping emergency responders assess the damage of a weather event and find victims in its aftermath. Most recently satellites have tracked the devastation wrought by the California wildfires from space. The United States military, which is often the first on the scene of...

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