How Google Uses AI to Predict Floods Worldwide

Summary

Google Research explains how Flood Hub forecasts river floods up to seven days ahead and urban flash floods up to 24 hours ahead. Groundsource uses Gemini to analyze more than 5 million news reports and create a dataset of 2.6 million historical flood events, helping extend predictions to data-scarce cities. Google provides the forecasts through Flood Hub and its API, while open-source frameworks and datasets support researchers, meteorological agencies, and aid organizations.