In this course, you will be introduced to the four phases of the disaster management cycle; mitigation, preparation, response, and recovery. You’ll work through two case studies in this course. In the first, you will use computer vision to analyze satellite imagery from Hurricane Harvey in 2017 to identify damage in affected areas. In the second, you will use natural language processing techniques to explore trends in aid requests in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
AI and Disaster Management
AI and Disaster Management
This course is part of AI for Good Specialization
Instructor: Robert Monarch
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RK
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Reviewed on Nov 15, 2023
Practical insight into real-world application of tokenization and ML methods. And also a real examples of application of do-no-harm principles.
MN
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Reviewed on Dec 8, 2024
Great lectures, very insighful; I enjoyed the labs, and the structured framework for approaching the projects. The whole specialization is worthwhile!
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Reviewed on Aug 14, 2023
Great course with very interesting and thought-provoking content. Beginner friendly and excellent code-walkthrough! I can highly recommend the whole 'AI for Good' series.
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