Google announced Groundsource, an AI-powered methodology that uses Gemini to build a historical flood event dataset from public disaster data, starting with urban flash floods.
Mar 1, 2026
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- Used Gemini to read over 5 million news reports about flooding spanning a 20-year period
- Created a dataset of 2.6 million historical flood events across more than 150 countries
- The resulting data was integrated into a new urban flash flood model that is live in Flood Hub