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=== '''Infrastructure''' === |
=== '''Infrastructure''' === |
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*'''Predictive maintenance''': The increased weather extremes associated with climate change can create increased stresses on physical infrastructure, like roads and power lines. Machine learning can support targeted, just-in-time maintenance by isolating components at risk of near-term failure. |
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* Predictive maintenance |
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*'''Risk and vulnerability assessment''': Better knowledge of where and on what time scale impacts will be felt can support prioritization of resources for societal adaptation. |
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* Risk and vulnerability assessment |
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=== '''Societal Systems''' === |
=== '''Societal Systems''' === |
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*'''Monitoring food supplies''': By affecting rainfall and the timing of growing seasons, climate change poses a risk to food security. Machine learning can support information gathering around food supply chains, providing early warnings about -- and triggering preventative action around -- famines. |
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* Monitoring food supplies |
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*'''Public health''': Climate change can increase the range of vector-borne disease and exacerbate the severity and frequency of heatwaves. Both pose public health hazards, and machine learning can support risk assessment and outreach to vulnerable populations. |
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* Public health |
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* Responding to food security |
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=== '''Crisis''' === |
=== '''Crisis''' === |
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*'''Annotating disaster maps''': During crisis situations, relief organizations rely on detailed maps -- these are often the most reliable sources of information about the locations of schools, hospitals, and highways, for example. Machine learning can accelerate what are otherwise manual mapping processes. |
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* Annotating disaster maps |
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*'''Delivering alerts''': Machine learning can support situational awareness during crises, distilling large volumes of raw information (e.g., from social media or weather forecasts) into forms that can guide action. |
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* Delivering alerts |
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== Background Readings == |
== Background Readings == |
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Satellite imagery are used for ecological and social observation. Some public sources include, |
Satellite imagery are used for ecological and social observation. Some public sources include, |
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* [https://github.com/chrieke/awesome-satellite-imagery-datasets awesome-satellite-imagery-datasets]: A github repository of accessible satellite imagery data. |
* [https://github.com/chrieke/awesome-satellite-imagery-datasets '''awesome-satellite-imagery-datasets''']: A github repository of accessible satellite imagery data. |
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There have also been competitions revolving around climate change adaptation issues, |
There have also been competitions revolving around climate change adaptation issues, |
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* [https://app.wandb.ai/wandb/droughtwatch/benchmark DroughtWatch] |
* [https://app.wandb.ai/wandb/droughtwatch/benchmark '''DroughtWatch''']: Prediction for drought monitoring in Kenya. |
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* [https://www.drivendata.co/case-studies/promoting-digital-financial-services-in-tanzania/ Promoting Digital Financial Services in Tanzania] |
* [https://www.drivendata.co/case-studies/promoting-digital-financial-services-in-tanzania/ '''Promoting Digital Financial Services in Tanzania''']: Improving efficiency of money services for improvement of financial inclusion and resilience. |
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*[https://zindi.africa/competitions/ibm-malaria-challenge '''IBM Malaria Challenge''']: Machine learning disease surveillance and response, which is motivated by the spread of vector borne disease resulting from climate change. |
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This competition describes an attempt to use mobile money effort to improve financial inclusion and resilience. |
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Improved disease surveillance and response is an important part of adaptation – here is one competition with this goal in mind. |
Improved disease surveillance and response is an important part of adaptation – here is one competition with this goal in mind. |