For search and rescue, AI is not more accurate than humans, but it is far faster. Recent successes in applying computer vision and machine learning to drone imagery for rapidly determining building ...

The flash floods that have devastated Texas are already a difficult crisis to manage. More than 100 people are confirmed dead after the July 4 deluge, and many more remain missing. But while recovery ...

TANDALE, Tanzania (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The sight of a drone hovering above the streets of Tandale to map the crowded flood-prone neighborhood in the north of Dar es Salaam spread excitement ...

In a recent article in the journal PLoS One, researchers at Old Dominion University, USA, assessed the process of delivering medications through drones to people in rural and flood-prone coastal ...

A recreational drone, like the one pictured here, collided with a search and rescue helicopter in Kerrville. Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Kerry Raymond As rescue and recovery operations continue in the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Recent successes in applying computer vision and machine learning to drone imagery for ...