The cold drop The most destructive storm of the century has devastated eastern Spain, with more than 70 dead and dozens missing. Tools like Google Flood Hubtry to prevent this type of tragedies associated with DANA, floods and floods.
FloodHub It’s a Google Maps powered by artificial intelligenceand focused on flooding and river overflows.
Thanks to the use of two different AI modelsis able to predict when a river will overflow, and what areas it will cover, a week in advance.
This is how Google’s Flood Hub works
Flood Hub uses two artificial intelligence models: the Hydrological modeland the Flood model.
The first uses weather data to predict when a river will flood. Then the other model predicts how it will overflow: the areas it will cover, and how far it will go.
While with traditional weather forecasting, extreme events such as a DANA It can be prevented with just hours, or minutes in advance, With these AI models, the forecasts are advanced one week.
As we see in the image, Flood Hub marks the water level of major rivers and tributaries. By touching a specific point on the map, as in the example, the Turia River, we see the rise of the water, and the levels that are considered warning and danger.
Using this flood map is the same as using Google Maps. If you allow it, search based on your location. It is also possible to search by town or river, or tap directly on the map.
It must be taken into account that Flood Hud focuses on river overflows, so it does not include situations such as a stream which is formed by excess rain and runs along paths that do not correspond to a river or tributary.
Flood Hub has only been in operation for a short time, and only covers 80 countries and rivers that affect some 400 million people. Although it is integrated into most of Spain, strangely it does not yet cover the Valencia area.
With climate change, DANA and floods are going to become more frequent and more extreme. That is why it is important to have tools like this, to be able to prevent before the tragedy occurs.
Flood Hub, the Google Maps that prevents floods and floods using artificial intelligenceis available in Spanish at this web page.
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