FedGeoDay 2024 | Lightning Talk - Robert Pitts
from Project Geospatial Hosted by Project Geospatial
Summary Robert Pitts, from New Light Technologies, introduces their consultancy’s work in building data infrastructures and user experiences to support various organizations in improving outcomes and equity in areas such as public health, economic prosperity, and emergency management. They have developed an incident management tool called IMPACT that assesses risks in real time and provides reliable exposure predictions using AI models and advanced risk scoring methodology. The tool ingests open data sources and disseminates information through alerting and reporting services, web platforms, and APIs. Their approach has successfully overcome challenges in delivering actionable insights for emergency management by leveraging open data, science, modeling, and open source software. Highlights 🌐 New Light Technologies is helping build data infrastructures and user experiences to support various organizations. 🌀 The IMPACT tool assesses risks in real time and provides reliable exposure predictions using AI models and advanced risk scoring methodology. 🌍 Open data sources are ingested into a cloud-based modeling and workflow engine, which feeds the web reporting platform. 📊 The tool provides actionable insights for emergency management, supporting logistics planning, evacuations, and damage assessments. 🚀 New Light Technologies leverages the growing ecosystem of open data, open science, modeling, and open source software.
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