Google Leverages AI to Boost Global Flood Forecasting, Delivering Advanced Alerts to Over 80 Countries
• Google used AI and machine learning to improve global flood forecasting, accurately predicting some floods up to 7 days in advance
• Google was able to work around the lack of streamflow gauges by training ML models on available river data and applying them where no data existed
• Google published its flood forecasting findings in Nature, a leading multidisciplinary science journal
• The goal is to scale flood forecast accuracy globally, even where local data is unavailable
• Google delivers flood alerts and forecasts to over 80 countries via Search, Maps, Android notifications, and its Flood Hub