Houston Works Toward Data-Driven Disaster Response

Government Technology: In this month’s installment of the Innovation of the Month series, we learn how researchers in Houston are developing resiliency plans around the area’s Greens Bayou region, with the support of and feedback from the communities directly impacted during Hurricane Harvey in late 2017.

MetroLab’s Executive Director Ben Levine spoke with Philip Bedient, director of the Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters (SSPEED) Center at Rice University and Susan Rogers, associate professor and director of the Community Design Resource Center at the Hines College of Architecture and Design at the University of Houston, to learn more.

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