Google launches ‘FloodHub’, a platform to forecast flood

Tags: Science and Technology

In November 2022, Google launched a platform called 'FloodHub' to forecast floods. In this context, Google has expanded its AI flood forecasting services, which were first introduced in 2018 to an additional 18 countries in India, Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia.

Important Facts:

• The company also launched 'FloodHub', a platform that displays flood forecasts and shows when and where floods are likely to occur, so that people at risk can be directly informed of their needs and officials can help them effectively. be able to assist.

• In 2018, the company launched its Flood Forecasting Initiative to help combat the devastating damage caused by floods.

• The company has expanded its wildfire monitoring program to a few more countries after launching it in the US.

• Using new AI models based on satellite imagery, the company detects the extent of wildfires and searches and shows their real-time location in a map.

• Google said that since July, we've covered more than 30 major wildfire incidents in the US and Canada, helping people and fire teams search and view Maps more than 7 million times.

• Wildfire detection is now available in the US, Canada, Mexico and parts of Australia.

Google:

• Founders: Larry Page, Sergey Brin;

• Parent Organization: Alphabet Inc.;

• Established: 4 September 1998;

• Headquarters: Mountain View, California, United States;

• CEO: Sundar Pichai;