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

AWS Public Sector Blog

The framework has evolved over the last five years, and instances of Aether are deployed in various resilience and disaster response studies across the globe. Some other projects powered by Aether include Rapid Analytics for Disaster Response (RADR) and Chemical Security Mapping Tool (CSMT).

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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

What’s missing from current methods of managing flood risk? To understand how local governments can better manage flood risk, it is important to understand how this work is done at present. Solutions lie in community involvement The solutions to managing flooding effectively come in two aspects—human and technical.

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

AWS Public Sector Blog

Learn about the startups and the problems they aim to solve: 10-8 Systems Mission Viejo, CA 10-8 Systems offers advanced, cloud-native computer aided dispatch (CAD) and records management software (RMS) for law enforcement, emergency services, fire, and private security. Austin, TX Revir Technologies, Inc.,

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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. Managing the world’s natural resources with earth observation. Transforming animal conservation with open data and more on AWS.

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Get prepared for re:Invent 2022: A public sector guide

AWS Public Sector Blog

Hear stories of innovation from AWS Partners in the AWS Public Sector Partner Breakout Session, “ Partnering to capitalize on public sector innovation ,” led by Jeff Kratz, general manager of AWS worldwide public sector partners. Make sure you talk to your AWS account representative to understand what you shouldn’t miss.

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Querying the Daylight OpenStreetMap Distribution with Amazon Athena

AWS Public Sector Blog

This is guest post written by Jennings Anderson, research scientist at Meta, with Mike Jeffe, a technical business development manager on the Open Data Team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). An AWS account 2. We can begin to dive deeper into common workflows once we create the Daylight OSM Features table in Athena. 2,730 2015-01-02 301.42