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Disaster response and risk management using PNNL’s Aether framework on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Characterizing disaster risk and developing strategies for resilience and response to natural event hazards is core to the mission of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). The science of event simulation and emergency response is based broadly on physics and earth science for climate simulations.

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Innovations in Data: Put Digital Twins to Work

GovLoop

The concept of digital twins, which has been around for years, is gaining traction as agencies gather better data and vendors develop better tools. Government Accountability Office defines a digital twin as a virtual representation of a physical object, process or system.

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How to detect wildfire smoke using Amazon Rekognition

AWS Public Sector Blog

Disaster response teams can use the cloud to create wildfire detection workflows that automatically deploy rapid notifications to fire incident response teams, so disaster response teams are alerted to the first signs of wildfire formation.

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How to build awareness of flood risk and gain buy-in for flood control measures

American City & Country

Three main challenges local communities face are obtaining information based on: Current conditions: Most available flood risk information is based on historical hydrologic data and does not account for extreme rainfall events. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and U.S. annual chance events.

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AI governance: Ensuring artificial intelligence is a force for good

Open Access Government - Technology News

We created the summit to identify practical applications of AI to tackle the UN Sustainable Development Goals and scale those solutions for global impact. Part of what underpins this practical approach is our role in the international standard-setting system, which provides guidelines for the development and application of technology.

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AWS selects 13 startups to innovate public safety solutions through the GovTech Accelerator

AWS Public Sector Blog

the Accelerator supports government technology (GovTech) startups as they develop innovative solutions enabling justice and public safety agencies to better serve their communities. The AWS GovTech Accelerator was created to support the development of technologies that can address these challenges.

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Understanding wildfire risk in a changing climate with open data and AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

These simulations account for a wide range of possible weather conditions, informed by current and future modeled climate conditions under the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s emission scenarios. Learn more about the model works in this published paper on MDPI Open Access Journals.