Ground truth: When the earth moves, AI can spot it
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BBC — "This is not good," says Antoinette Tordesillas, a mathematician at the University of Melbourne, as she shows me an overhead view of Kimtang via Zoom. There's a large red spot on the image, which is not any old satellite image but a coloured map created by an artificial intelligence (AI) system.
The AI has identified a large unstable area, right beneath the village, colouring it bright red amid the dark blue of the rest of the hillside. It means the village sits right on top of a spot at high risk of a potentially devastating landslide. "Their village, where they live and farm, are actually on the slope," says Tordesillas.
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