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    <Title>UMBC &amp; GESTAR II hosted UN-ITU Focus Group's annual workshop</Title>
    <Tagline>Focus on AI methods and use-cases for disaster management</Tagline>
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          <span>The United Nations International Telecommunications Union (UN-ITU) Focus Group on <strong><a href="https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/ai4ndm/Pages/default.aspx" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">AI for Natural Disaster Management</a></strong> scheduled its annual international workshop. This year, </span><a href="https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/what-we-do/disasters" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">NASA’s Disasters Program</a><span> led the organization of this workshop, which was hosted at UMBC's arena, from March 13-14. This was arranged as a collaboration between UMBC's GESTAR II team and NASA Disasters Program Leadership, Dr. Shanna McClain. </span><a href="https://gestar2.umbc.edu/directory/researchers-a-f/#Albayrak" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Arif Albayrak</strong></a><span> (618/UMBC) and </span><a href="https://gestar2.umbc.edu/directory/researchers-a-f/#Emberson" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Robert Emberson</strong></a><span><strong> </strong>(617/UMBC) were both involved in organizing this workshop.</span><div>
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          <span>The objective of the workshop was twofold: first, to share novel <strong>AI methods</strong> and use-cases for disaster management, and second, to plan future actions of the Focus Group (FG-AI4NDM).  </span><span>Read more about this event </span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/gestar2/posts/140581" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>here</strong></a><span>.</span>
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    <Summary>The United Nations International Telecommunications Union (UN-ITU) Focus Group on AI for Natural Disaster Management scheduled its annual international workshop. This year, NASA’s Disasters...</Summary>
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    <PostedAt>Fri, 05 Apr 2024 09:06:55 -0400</PostedAt>
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