Aaron Yonas
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Inundation Modeling in Data Scarce Regions
Zvika Ben-Haim
Vova Anisimov
Yusef Shafi
Sella Nevo
Artificial Intelligence for Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response Workshop (2019)
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Flood forecasts are crucial for effective individual and governmental protective action. The vast majority of flood-related casualties occur in developing countries, where providing spatially accurate forecasts is a challenge due to scarcity of data and lack of funding. This paper describes an operational system providing flood extent forecast maps covering several flood-prone regions in India, with the goal of being sufficiently scalable and cost-efficient to facilitate the establishment of effective flood forecasting systems globally.
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