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New research uses AI to unlock decades of hidden flood risk data

Engineers at the University of Houston have unlocked decades of hidden flood risk data, using artificial intelligence to transform paper flood maps into digital tools that reveal how flooding has evolved—and where future risks are rising. The team developed an AI-driven framework that extracts and g...

New research uses AI to unlock decades of hidden flood risk data
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Engineers at the University of Houston have unlocked decades of hidden flood risk data, using artificial intelligence to transform paper flood maps into digital tools that reveal how flooding has evolved—and where future risks are rising. The team developed an AI-driven framework that extracts and georeferences historical Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), converting paper records into high-accuracy digital datasets.

Originally published at Phys.org

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