In recent months, Google has been expanding its forecasting models and services in partnership with the Indian Central Water Commission. In addition to expanding in India, Google has partnered with the Bangladesh Water Development Board to bring its warnings and services to Bangladesh, “which experiences more flooding than any other country in the world”, according to the blog post. It said Google currently covers more than 40 million people in Bangladesh, and it is working to extend this to the whole country. “While some of these problems are specific to flood monitoring in India and other developing nations, some of the techniques Google has pioneered in India could change flood forecasting worldwide,” Fortune wrote. Quoting Nevo, the magazine said even state-of-the-art flood forecasting had previously relied on hydrologic models that were based largely on maps of local topography and conceptual principles derived from physics.

Source: bd News24 September 01, 2020 18:33 UTC