CodeFunDo++ Idea: To use geospatial data and other Azure services in mitigating flood damages.
We plan to make use of Machine Learning and AI concepts to provide safe evacuation routes to people in flood affected areas. This application will provide vital information to flood victims by locating the nearest safehouses and listing the paths to get to them.
Primary Goal:
- Construct an evacuation strategy. We propose to do this by using a search strategy like A* search with heuristics such as elevation and terrain.
Stretch Goals(Subject to change):
- Rehabilitation Planning
- Damage Assesment.
Technologies to be used: We hope to achieve this using Azure's Geospatial Analytics along Machine Learning APIs.
A few examples of the idea:
This image shows the difference in elevation levels between the source and destination:
This image shows an example of a path to reach an elevated area during a flood:
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