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How AI could help us manage natural disasters

Sheds sit in flooded waters due to Hurricane Florence, now downgraded to a tropical depression, in Kinston, North Carolina, U.S., September 19, 2018. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz - RC1810F5B2E0

It uses the power of social networks. Image: REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

Roger Wang
Lecturer of Fluid Mechanics in Civil Engineering, University of Dundee
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