Effective flood management begins with Foresight
Flood Foresight is a globally-scalable operational system providing data on rainfall severity, flood inundation footprints and depth, and flood impacts.
These datasets are updated at up to three hours’ frequency and allow rapid loss estimation for current and forecast flood states, supporting decision-making before, during and after major flood events.
Designed to be compatible with existing business intelligence and decision support tools, Flood Foresight supports operational flood management in the infrastructure, insurance, utilities and civil
contingencies sectors.
Features
Data are available via web-app, API, download or email for integration into your workflow.
Rainfall screening
Flood Monitoring and Forecasting
Impact analysis
Global rainfall data: consistent precipitation data and return periods up to seven days in advance
Forecast and real-time flood extent and depth data: trans-national riverine flood footprints and alerts up to 10 days in advance
Forecast impact mapping: identify potentially affected assets and generate loss forecasts before and during flood events
Storm Desmond case study
Retrospectively applying Flood Foresight to develop future response actions
Sector benefits
Latest news
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Development of a flood impact forecasting system for humanitarian early actions in the Indus River basin, Pakistan
2nd July 2020 -
Research on combining modelling and satellite data for flooding for parametric insurance
25th June 2020 -
Flood Foresight team host PhD student placement
2nd April 2020 -
One year on – Storm Gareth causes widespread flooding across the United Kingdom
12th March 2020 -
Looking back at UK flood events in 2019
20th January 2020 -
Forecast flood inundation mapping to support the management of catastrophic floods
16th May 2019