In 2018, Google released its flood forecasting services to protect people from natural calamities.
In addition, the IT behemoth has extended its AI flood-predicting services to 18 countries in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. Remember, these AI-powered flood-predicting systems were initially deployed in India in 2018.
Google, the American technological behemoth, has introduced ‘FloodHub,’ a site that shows flood projections. This platform depicts the location and time when floods are likely to occur so that people are aware of the natural disaster and authorities can efficiently support them.
In addition, the IT behemoth has extended its AI flood-predicting services to 18 countries in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. Remember, these AI-powered flood-predicting systems were initially deployed in India in 2018.
In 2018, Google released flood forecasting services to protect people from calamities and natural disasters.
“We’re also using AI to anticipate floods, another severe weather phenomenon affected by climate change,” Google writes in a blog post. We’ve already helped towns estimate when and how deep floodwaters would rise – in 2021, we issued 115 million flood alarm alerts to 23 million people using Google Search and Maps, saving many lives.”
“Today, we’re excited to announce that we’re expanding our coverage to more countries in South America (Brazil and Colombia), Sub-Saharan Africa (Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Angola, South Sudan, Namibia, Liberia, and South Africa),” Google adds.
Google claims to have utilised an AI approach known as transfer learning to make it operate in locations with little data. “We are also announcing the worldwide debut of Google FloodHub, a new platform that shows when and where floods are likely to occur.” “In the future, we’ll bring this information to Google Search and Maps to assist more people to seek safety in flood scenarios,” Google claimed in a blog post.
Meanwhile, Google has incorporated its Lens image recognition technology into many of its other functions. It comes with Google Chrome and Photos. According to 9to5Google, Google is introducing a Lens button to its main page, in its search bar.
Users would be requested to upload a picture or input a URL to one after clicking the Lens button. They will then be led to a page they may recognise if they have used the Lens app or any of its prior iterations.
