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#67: Google's 2-Billion-Person Flood AI, IRC's Displacement Challenge, Himalayan Landslide Warnings Go Live
Impact Signals #67: Google's 2-Billion-Person Flood AI, IRC's Displacement Challenge, Himalayan Landslide Warnings Go Live Google published hard reach numbers for its crisis AI for the first time: flood forecasting now covers 2 billion people in over 150 countries, and its damage models scored 385,000 buildings after Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica. In India, IIT Mandi switched on a landslide early warning system spanning the entire Indian Himalaya, and the indigenous BharatFS model called a Nashik cloudburst a day ahead, triggering pre-emptive school closures across Maharashtra. Meanwhile the…
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