System for Detecting Floods from Space Using Artificial Intelligence - ELE Times

Researchers at the Image Processing Laboratory (IPL) of the University of Valencia, in collaboration with the University of Oxford and the Phi-Lab of the European Space Agency (ESA), have developed a model for flood detection based on neural networks. It's called WorldFloods and has been launched into space by aerospace company D-Orbit from Cape Canaveral. In terms of flooding, observing the Earth from space provides valuable information for decision-making on the ground. Large constellations of small nanosatellites--the CubeSats--are a promising solution to reduce revisitation time from days to hours--as long as it takes a sensor to re-cover a location--in disaster areas. However, data transmission to terrestrial receivers is limited by the power and bandwidth restrictions of the cubes.