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10/11/22 14:23 PM IST

Google launches ‘FloodHub’, a platform to forecast flood

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  • Google, an American technology giant, has launched a platform that displays flood forecasts, namely ‘FloodHub’.
About FoodHub
  • Google launched its flood forecasting services to safeguard people against disasters and natural calamities in 2018. Google states that the company has used an AI technique called transfer learning to make it work in areas where there is less data available.
  • Google states that the company has used an AI technique called transfer learning to make it work in areas where there is less data available.
  • The search engine has also integrated its Lens image recognition feature into many of its other features. It includes Google Chrome and Photos.

Source- Live Mint 

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