A number of flood monitoring firms are now using artificial intelligence (AI) to help them sound the alarm before the waters rise. 7Analytics, based in Bergen, offers real-time flooding predictions and identifies areas at risk of flood damage.
Flooding can lead to the loss of life, homes and livelihoods, and the global risk appears to be getting worse. Some 1.81 billion people - more than one fifth of the world population - now face "significant flood risk". It comes as numerous other studies warn that climate change is making floods more likely and severe. To help reduce the impact of flooding, a number of flood monitoring firms are now using artificial intelligence (AI) to help them sound the alarm before the waters rise.
Based in the Norwegian city of Bergen, 7Analytics is a team of computer scientists and geologists who offer businesses and local authorities real-time flooding predictions, and let them know which areas are particularly at risk of flood damage. "We can actually predict, based on the weather forecasts up to seven days in advance, what flooding will happen, and it's down to the very finest grain," says 7Analytics co-founder Jonas Torland. "All of this data takes into account where the water will flow, and where it will create problems.
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