{"id":185686,"date":"2024-03-21T16:32:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T21:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/google-used-ai-to-accurately-predict-floods-up-to-7-days-in-advance"},"modified":"2024-03-21T16:32:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T21:32:29","slug":"google-used-ai-to-accurately-predict-floods-up-to-7-days-in-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/google-used-ai-to-accurately-predict-floods-up-to-7-days-in-advance","title":{"rendered":"Google used AI to accurately predict floods up to 7 days in advance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-used-ai-to-accurately-predict-floods-up-to-7-days-in-advance3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google just announced that it has been riverline floods, up to seven days in advance in some cases. This isn\u2019t just tech company hyperbole, as the findings were actually published <em>Nature. <\/em>Floods are the most common natural disaster throughout the world, so any early warning system is good news.<\/p>\n<p>Floods have been notoriously tricky to predict, as most rivers don\u2019t have streamflow gauges. Google got around this problem by with all kinds of relevant data, including historical events, river level readings, elevation and terrain readings and more. After that, the company generated localized maps and ran \u201chundreds of thousands\u201d of simulations in each location. This combination of techniques allowed the models to accurately predict upcoming floods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google just announced that it has been riverline floods, up to seven days in advance in some cases. This isn\u2019t just tech company hyperbole, as the findings were actually published Nature. Floods are the most common natural disaster throughout the world, so any early warning system is good news. Floods have been notoriously tricky to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}