Google's AI model set to transform flood forecasting for 150+ countries
- Google's initiative, Groundsource, aims to provide early flood warnings to billions in 150 countries.
- It builds a high-quality urban flood data archive by processing over 5 million flood-related news reports, creating a dataset of 2.6 million historical flood events.
- Google has already open-sourced its framework and APIs to assist national meteorological departments.
Source: brief.news
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