Recent years, typhoon damages has become social problem owing to climate change. Especially, 9 September 2019, Typhoon Faxai passed on the south Chiba prefecture in Japan, whose damages included with electric and water provision stop and house roof break because of strong wind recorded on the maximum 45 meter per second. A large amount of tree fell down, and the neighbor electric poles also fell down at the same time. These disaster features have caused that it took eighteen days for recovery longer than past ones. Initial responses are important for faster recovery. As long as we can, aerial survey for global screening of devastated region would be required for decision support to respond where to recover ahead. This paper proposes a practical method to visualize the damaged areas focused on the typhoon disaster features using aerial photography. This method can classify eight classes which contains land covers without damages and areas with disaster, where an aerial photograph is partitioned into 4,096 grids that is 64 by 64, with each unit image of 48 meter square. Using target feature class probabilities, we can visualize disaster features map to scale the color range from blue to red or yellow. Furthermore, we can realize disaster feature mapping on each unit grid images to compute the convolutional activation map using Grad-CAM based on deep neural network layers for classification. This paper demonstrates case studies applied to aerial photographs recorded at the south Chiba prefecture in Japan after typhoon disaster.

We may not be living on Mars or traveling to work using jet packs, but there's no doubt the coming decade will bring many exciting technological advances. In this article, I want to outline the 25 key technology trends that I believe will shape the 2020s. The increasing ability of machines to learn and act intelligently will absolutely transform our world. It is also the driving force behind many of the other trends on this list. This refers to the ever-growing number of "smart" devices and objects that are connected to the internet.

A startup at a village in Kochi has developed an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ( UAV) drone supported with artificial intelligence that can help combat COVID-19 by monitoring body temperature, supplying essential commodities and spraying disinfectants. The unmanned'Garud' has been designed and engineered by AI Aerial Dynamics at the Maker village, which is India's largest electronic hardware incubator. The indigenously made drone can monitor roads and bylanes, besides residential pockets and aerodromes that have been locked down across the country since March 25 in an effort to check the spread of the deadly coronavirus. Also, the aerial vehicle can collect thermal data by using an array of IR sensors and advanced digital technology called EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution), thus working as a means to combating the pandemic. The vehicle can collect swabs and samples of people for COVID-19 test. It has the capacity to carry weight up to 60 kg, thus facilitating distribution of even essential commodities if there is an exigency.

In the current times where human to human interaction can be fatal in many areas and everything is dependent on one-touch away services through mobile apps, service providers must facilitate customers with the best service and delivery experiences. It is high time that vendors should enhance their last-mile delivery services with efficiency. The movements of goods from the transportation hub to the final destination, specifically personal residence in most of the cases, are termed as last-mile delivery. The last mile logistics are currently focusing on delivering items to end-users as fast as possible. Here are the top 10 most innovative companies building autonomous delivery robots that may come soon to your neighborhood.

Robots and A.I. could have a big impact on our urban future. "Bweep boo bweeeee," Simon-360 screeches electronically out of its 600-pound metallic frame, rousing you from your slumber atop a mattress made of pressurized warm air. You force one eye open and catch a blurry glimpse of a sunny day from inside your glass-encased condo atop a 2-mile high stratoscraper. The busy yet harmonious morning commute of autonomous flying buses, jet-packed professionals, and schoolchildren on boards that actually hover has already begun in your megacity. I've made you breakfast," your self-aware artificial housekeeper explains, pouring a glass filled with orange juice, fried eggs, toast, and bacon on your face.

Nuro, the self-driving startup founded by two ex-Google engineers, was approved to test its driverless delivery robots on public roads in California. The company is the second to receive a driverless permit in the state. Nuro, which has tested its driverless grocery delivery service in Arizona and Texas, is authorized to test two light-duty delivery vehicles in nine Bay Area cities, according the California DMV. This includes portions of the cities of Atherton, East Palo Alto, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, and Woodside. The vehicles can't exceed 25 mph and are only approved to operate in fair weather conditions on streets with a speed limit of no more than 35 mph. Waymo is the only other company to receive a permit from the DMV for driverless testing -- but has yet to exercise that privilege.

Officials are turning to'talking' drones to keep citizens safe amid the coronavirus outbreak. Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Kim Andrade was just walking along Daytona beach when a drone came buzzing by. It caught her attention, and she even went ahead and snapped a few photos. What she did not expect to learn, however, is that the drone has a voice.

In the midst of South Africa's five-week extended lockdown, footage has emerged of a drone collecting data and enforcing social distancing. It offers a fascinating first-person view of AI-based software in action and yet another example of drones fighting against COVID-19. The footage comes from local South African publication Sowetan Live. A mayor within the largely rural Limpopo Province of South Africa has employed drone technology to monitor social distancing and enforce lockdown rules. Similar to implementations in other countries, this drone uses a public address system.

The UK government is setting aside £2.6 million for new satellite and drone technology that could deliver essential supplies during the coronavirus lockdown. The UK Space Agency (UKSA) is funding new solutions to deliver equipment such as test kits, masks, gowns and goggles for frontline NHS staff. The joint initiative with the European Space Agency could lead to vital equipment soaring through British skies via drones to support the NHS in tackling COVID-19. Companies can submit their proposals, including ideas for deployment and a pilot phase, on the European Space Agency (ESA) website. The UK's space industry is also looking for ways to combat the spread of coronavirus and preventing future epidemics using satellites.

Demand for Alphabet's drone delivery Wing is soaring in a Virginia town amid the coronavirus pandemic. Residents of Christianburg are under stay at home orders and are taking advantage of the service to receive goods without having to leave their homes. Wing was approved to test deliveries in the area last October, but has recently added new vendors to better serve residents during the lockdown. The firm has made more than 1,000 deliveries in the past two weeks, with toilet paper, coffee and cookies being the most popular. Demand for Alphabet's drone delivery Wing is soaring in a Virginia town amid the coronavirus pandemic.