One of the biggest challenges of climate change is water-related. Flooding of cities is a natural hazard that occurs in many countries worldwide, generating economic, material and human loss. These floods bring misery to those that live in the areas affected. Water can come into people’s houses, pollute drinking water, break down electricity supply, block […]Read More
A new and better way to detect floods just got off the ground. An innovative artificial intelligence model, called “Worldfloods”, can relay flood information from space to disaster response teams below. Deployed on hardware as part of the “Wild Ride” mission launched by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 on June 30th, 2021, Worldfloods represents an important step […]Read More
In the course of the last two weeks the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (EMS) was activated several times for floods in the Rhine and Maas basins. In a series of four activations, the emergency satellite mapping service produced up to date maps of the affected areas in Switzerland, Germany, France, Belgium and ultimately the Netherlands. […]Read More
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