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MIT and Penn State join forces with AWS to help classify images of flood disaster zones SHARE Researchers at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and students at the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology have been working on artificial intelligence computer models that uses disaster scene images to inform responders about flooding. For humans, this process is relatively easy, but when a dataset is made up of more than 100,000 areal images that vary in altitude, c...

Belo Monte dam’s water demands imperil Amazon communities, environment by Tiffany Higgins on 16 December 2020 Norte Energia, the builder and operator of the controversial Belo Monte mega-dam is pushing for implementation of a much disputed “consensus hydrogram” — a plan to annually manipulate water releases into the Xingu River’s Volta Grande (Big Bend), with estimated peak April releases ranging from a mere 4,000 – 8,000 m3/s. Noting that April average historical river flows in th...