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Floods and slides in Indonesia and Timor: displaced peopel as a result of natural disasters

March 3, 2022May 23, 2021 by Redacción

Indonesia has suffered 1.030 natural disasters so far in 2021, including earthquakes, floods, landslides, fires and tornadoes, which, not counting the victims of the lates floods, caused 282 deaths. Landslides and flash floods are frequent in the Indonesian archipelago, especially in the rainy season. Environmental defenders claim that deforestation favors these catastrophes. The National Disaster … Read more

The MaxEnt Methodology in Generating Multiple Hazard Maps for Floods

February 22, 2022April 8, 2021 by Redacción

The article Evaluation of multi-hazard map produced using MaxEnt machine learning technique, published las March in the journal Nature, proposes the elaboration of maps of multiple hazards from the use of the MaxEnt* methodology (Maximum Entropy) for the identification of areas sensitive to large-scale hazards. As explained in the Nature article: “Maximum entropy has been … Read more