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October 12, 2020

AI for social cause - Flood Forecasting

I came across this talk in Responsible AI for Social Empowerment (a global virtual summit). Many thanks to Lavanya for sharing the video 

Keynotes

  • Scalable and high accuracy flood forecasts



  • Providing Alerts, collaborate with local authorities is already taken care
  • This initiative is about proactive alerts
  • Focus on riverine floods only
  • Forecast for water level with these features, variables are
  • Hydrologic LSTM time series based models achieved better results




  • Inundation model - Simulate behavior across flood level

  • Understand areas affected for proactive alerts
  • Morphological model - ML + Physics based

  • Protect people, public alerts, detailed info about flood extent
  • 35 Million warnings past few months

Keep Thinking!!!


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