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Managing Your Data for AI

GovLoop

They need the right data, which could be years-old information that once seemed irrelevant. β€œIt And geospatial analytics, Barlow said, will improve disaster response planning, weather forecasting and municipal development, among other possibilities. This article appeared in our guide, β€œ Gearing Up for AI.”

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Defining Open Data

GovLoop

One is the National Interagency Fire Center ArcGIS Online Organization, which pools mapping and evacuation data to help guide wildfire responses among state, local, tribal and national agencies. Local research groups and community organizations have initiated programs to fill that information gap.

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Google Cloud launches new sustainability offerings to help public sector agencies improve climate resilience

Google Public Sector

To help solve this problem, Google Cloud is introducing new offerings that help organizations utilize Earth observation data to better understand climate risks and provide insights to inform policies for adaptation strategies. Public sector organizations store large amounts of data in Geographic Information System (GIS) systems.

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The Primacy of Social Capital for Community Resilience

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Aldrich and Meyer argued for greater attention to the role of social capital in a seminal 2015 article by in the American Behavioral Scientist. One reason resilience scholars historically have not paid enough attention to social capital is due to the fact that there is still some conceptual confusion around the term. 1377-80).

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Another reason is that disaster response has undergone a long-drawn-out process of civilianisation. We classify disasters in order to deal with "more manageable conceptual units." Associating particular kinds of disaster with classes of event obviates the need to restate basic information every time we deal with such phenomena.

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