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Data and information management

This theme covers aspects related to hardware, software, networks, and media for the collection, storage, processing, transmission and presentation of information for disaster risk reduction (DRR), as well as related services. It also addresses information management to support knowledge sharing for DRR, such as data exchange standards and taxonomy.

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Research briefs

Our novel artificial intelligence model can predict extreme storm surges with high accuracy, including under future climate conditions.

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Maximum Information today announces the launch of PsiClone, a new live event monitoring platform that helps insurers, reinsurers and underwriting teams monitor portfolio exposure and act earlier during active tropical cyclone events.

Maximum Information
Debris flow disaster information representation and perception based on knowledge graphs and virtual geographic environments thumbnail
Documents and publications

The paper demonstrates that a knowledge-driven VGE system with 3D animations significantly improves public disaster risk perception compared to static or textual formats, validated through eye-tracking experiments and comparative NLP model analysis.

Nature Scientific Reports
Disaster risk in Brazil: trends, challenges and policy insights thumbnail
Documents and publications

The study analyzes the evolution of DRR policies in Brazil and examines how these developments are reflected in disaster outcomes.

Natural Hazards (Springer)
Towards multimodal geospatial reasoning: a foundation model approach for disaster detection from social media, news, and weather data thumbnail
Documents and publications

This publication explores how generative language models combine social media, news and weather data to detect disasters quickly and accurately, using satellite data to validate results from flood and wildfire case studies.

Natural Hazards (Springer)
The value of forecasters-in-the-loop in real-time flood forecasting in the age of machine learning thumbnail
Documents and publications

ML models for hydrological forecasting, even when given perfect inputs, cannot yet match the reliability of experienced human forecasters operating real-world prediction systems.

Geophysical Research Letters (AGU)
Research briefs

The authors call for expanded detection and attribution studies to better quantify how specific climate shifts drive health outcomes, and to translate those findings into actionable public health guidance.

American Society for Microbiology
Assessing pluvial flooding risk in urban areas with high spatial heterogeneity using a fused physically-based and data-driven framework thumbnail
Documents and publications

This study developed an integrated urban flood risk assessment framework for cities with significant spatial heterogeneity, combining differentiated hydrological-hydrodynamic modeling with complementary grid-based.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
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