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Artificial intelligence used to predict the impacts of future flooding events

It is being developed as part of the TAIAO project and will be one of only a handful of systems in operation in New Zealand using artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning to predict floods and the effects of flooding.Senior researcher at the University of Waikato AI Institute and senior regional hazard advisor at Waikato Regional Council, Dr Phil Mourot says the idea for the project first came about after the Queen’s Birthday weekend flooding in the Coromandel in 2020.“Currently, there ...