Company News

Floodbase Data to Enable Malaria Eradication in Africa
To support the project, Floodbase provided BCG with a historical catalog of flood data dating back more than two decades covering all of sub-Saharan Africa - an area totaling more than eight million square miles (20+ million sq km).
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Floodbase Named Recipient of RISE Resilience Challenge
New program will enable community-based flood insurance in southwest Virginia
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Federal Flood Maps Are No Match for Florida’s Double Hurricane
Bloomberg: Many areas inundated by Hurricane Helene — and in the path of Milton — sit outside the zones where homeowners are required to buy flood insurance.
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Amwins and Floodbase Unveil Groundbreaking Flood Insurance Program for California Municipalities
California municipalities are largely uninsured against flooding, despite atmospheric rivers costing the state more than $1B annually. A first-of-its-kind parametric flood insurance program leverages Floodbase’s advanced AI monitoring technology, providing comprehensive coverage to close the municipal flood protection gap.
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Amwins and Floodbase Unveil First-of-its-Kind Flood Insurance for U.S. Golf Courses
The “Tees-to-Green” flood program leverages Floodbase’s advanced AI monitoring technology to provide comprehensive flood coverage for business interruption and damages to the golf course itself.
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Floodbase to Launch Cutting-Edge Parametric Flood Insurance Programs for Farmers in Mozambique and Malawi
Floodbase has been awarded a grant through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to launch parametric flood insurance programs in Mozambique and Malawi, with support from African Risk Capacity Limited (ARC Ltd.) and Global Parametrics
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Floodbase Expands Flood Trigger Certification Functionality with Capella's High Resolution SAR Sensors
Floodbase and Capella are announcing a strategic partnership to bring additional high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite data to Floodbase’s end-to-end solution for parametric flood insurance. This partnership will expand Floodbase's payout trigger certification functionality for parametric insurance products by capturing the magnitude of flooding at high resolution and regardless of cloud cover.
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Oneglobal and Floodbase Partner to Develop Parametric Flood Insurance Programs across Asia
Floodbase and Oneglobal are partnering to close the flood insurance gap with cutting-edge parametric flood insurance solutions.
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Ag Guard and Floodbase Partner to Develop Parametric Flood Insurance Programs for New Zealand
Floodbase has announced a partnership with Ag Guard to develop and distribute parametric flood insurance programs across Australia and New Zealand.
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ARC Ltd and Floodbase Partner to Develop Parametric Flood Insurance Solutions for Africa
Floodbase announces a partnership with African Risk Capacity Limited (ARC Ltd) to develop, distribute, and scale parametric flood insurance solutions across Africa.
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Unlocking large-scale parametric flood insurance with reliable, continuous data
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Floodbase x Fathom: Improving disaster response with integrated flood data
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Announcing our work with FEMA to strengthen and inform their flood analytics capabilities
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Introducing Floodbase: Unlocking parametric flood insurance and financial protection in an era of constant climate crisis
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Announcing our new parametric hurricane solution: Adding flood protection to existing wind cover
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Our “Nature” Research Warns: Percentage of Global Population Exposed to Flooding Increasing Faster Than Scientists Thought
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Scientific Publications

Geophysical Research Letters
Rapid Inundation Mapping Using the US National Water Model, Satellite Observations, and a Convolutional Neural Network
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Nature
Satellite Imaging Reveals Increased Proportions of Population Exposed to Floods
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Environmental Research Letters
Comparing Earth Observation and Inundation Models to Map Flood Hazards
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Future Earth
Regional Index Insurance Using Satellite-Based Fractional Flooded Area
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Science Direct
From Cloud to Refugee Camp: A Satellite-Based Flood Analytics Case-Study in Congo-Brazzaville
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IEEE
Sen1Floods11: A Georeferenced Dataset to Train and Test Deep Learning Flood Algorithms for Sentinel-1
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Sustainability
Using Disaster Outcomes to Validate Components of Social Vulnerability to Floods: Flood Deaths and Property Damage across the USA
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Earth Observation Open Science and Innovation
Mapping Floods and Assessing Flood Vulnerability for Disaster Decision-Making: A Case Study Remote Sensing Application in Senegal
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WACV
H2O-Net: Self-Supervised Flood Segmentation via Adversarial Domain Adaptation and Label Refinement
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NeurIPS
Street to Cloud: Improving Flood Maps With Crowdsourcing and Semantic Segmentation
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Eos
The Push Toward Local Flood Risk Assessment at a Global Scale
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AGU
Global Flood Observation with Multiple Satellites
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AFD Technical Reports
Socio-physical Vulnerability To Flooding In Senegal
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Neurips 2021
Memory to Map: Improving Radar Flood Maps With Temporal Context and Semantic Segmentation
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IEEE IGARSS
Towards Frequent Flood Mapping with the Capella Sar System. The 2021 Eastern Australia Floods Case
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Remote Sensing
Flood Monitoring Using Enhanced Resolution Passive Microwave Data: A Test Case over Bangladesh
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