internet giant Google, announced that it has expanded its artificial intelligence-based flood prediction system, which is not widely discussed, to 100 different countries.
Google evaluates the different data it collects using special artificial intelligence systems and thus can predict river-related floods that cause great destruction and death 7 days in advance. This system now works in 100 different countries, including Turkey. Stating that approximately 700 million people live in 100 supported countries, the company shows that there is no flood risk in any location selected for Türkiye as of November 13, 2024. As has been said, impending devastating floods are very difficult to predict as most rivers do not have flow meters. Google gets around this problem by training custom machine learning models on historical events, river level data, elevation, terrain, and more. Creates maps specific to the selected region with this data and The company performs hundreds of simulations in every locationIn this way, it can predict floods days before they occur. A video that Google previously shared for this process is right below:
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Internet giant Google has previously come to the fore with important developments on the environmental side. When it comes to global warming, the most “carbon dioxide emissions” is highlighted but There are other factors that speed up the process. For example, according to the International Energy Agency, the large temperature increases observed globally Methane is responsible for approximately 30 percent (some sources also say 25 percent). According to NASA data, 60 percent of the methane concentration in the atmosphere, which has more than doubled in the last 200 years, is from human activities, 40 percent of from natural causes (Farm animals like cows, goats and deer produce incredible methane gas) Sources, International Energy Agency It explains that the total annual methane gas emission is 589.1 million tons in 2022.
It is stated that 395.1 million tons of this is due to human activities (especially the energy side), and 194 million tons is due to natural means. This is a very important issue for all of us. Google, in collaboration with the non-profit Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)will use artificial intelligence and satellite images to monitor methane gas and thus It will begin to clearly reveal the regions with the highest methane gas emissions.. The internet giant, which wants to mediate or accelerate solution efforts for these regions with the step it has taken, He believes that preventing methane pollution will have a huge positive impact on climate change.