How dangerous floods can be tracked using this Google app
The FloodHub platform “displays flood forecasts and shows when and where floods may occur to help people directly at risk and provide critical information to aid organizations and governments,” writes Yossi Matias, VP Engineering, Research and Crisis Response lead at Google in an official“This expansion in geographic coverage is possible thanks to our recent breakthroughs in AI-based flood forecasting models, and we’re committed to expanding to more countries,” Matias adds.
The platform shows a map of your area that includes information about regions with dangerous levels of flooding as well as flooding forecasts “which is usually up to a couple of days in the future.”
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