The City of Virginia Beach is proactively engaged in applying data science and artificial intelligence to: 1) create historic, current, and future data analysis platforms, 2) address flood-related issues caused by hurricanes and nor'easters, and 3) empower citizens to better manage their flood risk in enterprising new ways. 8 Cities in the Hampton Roads region formed an action cluster to participate in NIST's Global City Teams Challenge to densify a presently-sparse network of water level sensors to enhance real-time predictions made by the VA Institute of Marine Science (VIMS). View the award video below:
