microsoft haste

Microsoft HASTE is Microsoft's open-source disaster-assessment system that turns satellite imagery into usable damage maps quickly after major events. The tagged coverage describes how HASTE helped Catholic Relief Services obtain a damage map by the morning after Venezuela's June 24, 2026, earthquake, giving responders and local partners an earlier basis for deciding which communities needed assistance first. The practical gain is a shorter path from imagery to operational decisions about where to send people, supplies, and limited transport capacity. Microsoft's accompanying research also explains how analysts can train the system on a specific disaster without being machine-learning engineers, while the deployment highlights why fast assessments depend on confidence in the results.