Predicting the risk of flooding
AI can predict future flooding by analysing vast datasets, including weather patterns, river levels, and satellite imagery.
Activity: Play the video, an example of how this is done
Machine learning models improve accuracy, enabling early warnings, disaster preparedness, and risk mitigation for vulnerable communities.
Imagining the Future: AI’s Role and Ethical Considerations
Activity: Play the video which describes how AI is being used to deliver 7-day flood forecasts.
AI can make a big difference, helping governments, organisations, and communities prepare and protect themselves.
Looking to the Future
Imagine that you live in an area frequently affected by floods.
What if a new AI tool could generate and analyse realistic satellite images allowing the prediction of floods and flooding in the future.
Activity: Visit the Earth Intelligence Engine, an AI-driven platform that generates realistic, simulated satellite imagery to predict future flooding events, aiding in climate-resilient infrastructure planning and disaster preparedness.
Carefully examine the examples of images provided comparing AI generated and real imagery of floods and scenarios based on reforestation.
Image sourceConsidering the use of such powerful tools, we should also ask the following:
– What are the ethical implications come with relying on AI for such critical decisions
– How accurate are these predictions?
– How can we be sure the data is used responsibly?
– Should we trust these tools to help make decisions that affect millions of lives?
– Who is accountable if something goes wrong?
Image source: Copernicus