Background

Nowadays due to increasing anthropogenic pressure, such as soil sealing in cities and increase occurrence in extreme weather events, cities have been experiencing more and more severe flooding from different sources of hazard such as fluvial, pluvial and coastal. As water and flood management in many European cities are not up to the challenge, significant losses occur, in both economic and human life terms.

AI-driven Flood Intelligence in everyone’s hands

SaferPlaces makes use of Artificial Intelligence, satellite and geospatial information, and climate data (real-time, forecasting and climate projections) to assess the risk, the extent and the damage on city infrastructure of coastal, pluvial and fluvial floods and help every city worldwide in building preparedness and climate resilience.

Simulations and results run and can be visualized in a Digital Twin model of the city, created by integrating high-resolution data from WEkEO, Copernicus, Google Earth Engine (GEE), Open Street Map (OSM), Microsoft Planetary and AMAZON.

Helping cities turn climate resilient

SaferPlaces provides key insights into flood risk by making high-resolution information and data-driven algorithms accessible also to non-expert users, in every city worldwide. SaferPlaces supports risk-informed decisions and enhances cities' resilience by providing:

• Assessment of the effect of mitigation and adaptation measures for flood-related disasters and losses prevention
• Early warning systems based on rapid flood prediction for a better emergency management
• Investments advisory in preventive resilience-oriented solutions, with particular emphasis on Natural Based Solutions to reduce economic and humans losses.