Pentagon’s AI Center is Developing Tech that Could Revolutionize Disaster Response
The Defense Department’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center is implementing automation and AI practices that could speed up the nation’s ability to rapidly respond to wildfires, the center’s Chief of Strategy and Communications Greg Allen said Wednesday.
“If you’ve ever experienced wildfires or heard about them, you know they move quite fast over the course of several days,†Allen said at Nextgov’s Emerging Technology Summit in Washington. “And keeping track of where they are and where they are headed is a real challenge for first responders in disaster situations.â€
Defense has troves of sensor data, digital video data, digital infrared data and sonar data—all of which are attractive environments for machine-learning algorithms. Through this disaster-relief initiative, the agency plans to fly airborne sensors over wildfires in California and collect full-motion video data of the activity. At the same time, they are going to be automatically using a computer vision algorithm to detect which frames of the video have active wildfire.
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