Google Flood Forecasting Initiative

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Published
2022/10/18
Updated
2022/11/22
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Google
Flood Forecasting system provides early warning systems to populations in flood-prone areas.
Google’s Flood Forecasting team complements efforts by governments to provide early warning systems to populations living in flood-risk areas. Their modelling systems for flood prediction collect thousands of satellite images to build digital models of the terrain and simulate thousands of possible scenarios of how the rivers could behave. Simulations and high-quality elevation maps are cross-referenced with measurements sent from by government. Alerts can then be sent to individuals via different channels, with a claimed 90 percent accuracy. So far, Google has sent out over 100 million Android notifications in India and Bangladesh to people in flood-risk areas.

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