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Citizen science to prevent the effects of floods

Source(s): PhysOrg, Omicron Technology Ltd
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The Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) has developed Flood-up, a mobile phone application that aims to foster awareness of flooding, while collecting crowd-sourced data to help researchers better assess the phenomena and their impact.

The new tool allows users to locate and share images of diverse aspects related to floods and heavy rain. The images shared by users in both the application and on the website can be classified in a map by color and content: flood, rain, hail, lightning, landslides. Additionally, other images of vulnerable areas during flooding can be shared, such as a construction in the middle of a stream or a sewer in poor condition.

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