Artificial Intelligence approaches for disaster risk management

This brief explores AI capabilities to support the EU's prevention, preparedness, and resilience-building strategies, including the Preparedness Union Strategy. Efforts focus on enhancing information and image processing, advancing AI-driven risk assessment, and strengthening early warning systems.

The JRC works at the science-for-policy interface and therefore has a mandate to explore how AI can support EU policy making. Concretely, its work falls in three categories.

• First, the JRC creates new AI-based solutions in support of the Commission's policies.
• Second, the JRC keeps track of the fast progress in the field of AI for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) through its Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre (DRMKC)
• Third, the JRC actively participates in global AI initiatives for DRR. One example is the co-lead of the UN "Global Initiative on Resilience to Natural Hazards with AI"