Flood Intelligence Systems

From a single flood mask to a full early-warning platform with tiered community alerts

Flood Intelligence Systems
Advanced Geospatial AI 4 lessons Samuel Appiah Kubi

About this course

This course is the operational capstone of the SAR track: instead of detecting one flood on one date, you build a standing system that knows a basin's chronic flood-risk zones from six years of history and can react to a new event within days of it happening, translating a raw radar signal into a population-at-risk number a disaster management office can actually act on.

What you'll learn

  • Build a 6-year historical SAR flood-frequency composite and interpret what the frequency value means
  • Detect active inundation from the most recent Sentinel-1 acquisition
  • Overlay a flood mask with community population data to compute population at risk
  • Generate 4-tier risk zone maps (Safe / Watch / Warning / Emergency)
  • Export FloodWatch-compatible GeoJSON alert payloads ready for an SMS gateway or dashboard

Requirements

  • SAR Processing for Flood Mapping
  • Familiarity with the pygeovision client API

Course content

Building the 6-Year SAR Stack Preview 30 min
Computing Flood Frequency: What the Number Actually Means 26 min

Detecting a Current Event and Its Community Impact 32 min
From Detection to a Payload Someone Can Act On 28 min
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  • LevelAdvanced
  • Lessons4
  • CertificateYes
  • AccessLifetime
Samuel Appiah Kubi Instructor