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Help wanted in algorithm to estimate location of missed persons in Brumadinho

1 pointsby zhamisenover 6 years ago

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zhamisenover 6 years ago
From the README.MD:<p>This is the first version of a tool to estimate the possible location of a missed person at Brumadinho&#x2F;MG. At this city, a huge Dam Burst occured recently and many people died and many more are missing.<p>The Brumadinho dam disaster occurred on 25 January 2019, when a tailings dam at an iron ore mine in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil suffered a catastrophic failure.<p>— <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Brumadinho_dam_disaster" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Brumadinho_dam_disaster</a><p>This tool requires the latitude and longitude coordinates to calculate the estimative based on the tailing flows.<p>The algorithm still needs to be improved (so much!). Also, we built it with few data that we had got. To improve it, we need tailings physical-chemical data, topographic map (.csv) of the place, simulations of the reject spreading, and, of course, the latitude and longitude coordinates from the victims&#x27; cell phone.