Project description
Assessing war damage through AI
A war’s damage and destruction to the physical infrastructure of a country is often immense but difficult to assess, because this usually relies on eyewitness accounts that may be blurred or susceptible to bias. The ERC-funded MONWADES project aims to create an automated monitoring system which is powered by high-resolution satellite imagery and machine learning. Computer vision and deep learning techniques will be used by the project to provide rapid, precise, and cost-effective damage assessments across global conflict zones. This breakthrough will offer humanitarian organisations and policymakers an objective tool to understand the scale of destruction in order to plan reconstruction.
Objective
The Monitoring War Destruction (MONWADES) project aims to develop an automated system for assessing war-related destruction using high-resolution satellite imagery and machine learning. Current methods, which rely on manual detection and eyewitness reports, are often slow, expensive, and prone to bias. By integrating computer vision and deep learning techniques, MONWADES seeks to provide a more efficient, accurate, and cost-effective solution for damage assessment, in different conflict zones around the globe.
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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(opens in new window) ERC-2025-POC
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4366 Esch Sur Alzette
Luxembourg
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