Comprehensive media monitoring and insights with FloodTags

Monitor weather impact in real-time via your personalized dashboard. Data sources include BlueSky, X, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and over 150,000 news sites, blogs, forums worldwide. Keep track of impacted locations, infrastructure status, system damages, impacts on-the-ground, public perception and more.

The interface features interactive maps displaying georeferenced data, graphs with detailed statistics, and side menus containing individual tags, event summaries, and additional statistics. A query function lets you search the data efficiently, with filters for geographic areas, topics, and relevance indicators. Content is delivered within seconds of being posted. FloodTags currently covers floods, landslides, mudflows, windstorms, snow, hail and wildfires.

Access is provided via a website and API, under a paid subscription model. Clients include several meteorological services around the world, such as the Met Office in UK.

The Situation Brief delivers fast, structured information on new weather impact events. It contains a concise yet comprehensive overview, covering five essential dimensions:

• Hydrologic Event Description: Key characteristics and dynamics of the event
• Locations: Identification of affected areas at city or regional scale
• Causes: Analysis of contributing factors, such as rainfall, infrastructure failure, or land use
• Impact: Summary of consequences for people, infrastructure, and services
• Stakeholders: Overview of key actors involved or affected

For the Situation Brief, FloodTags extracts and summarizes information from online media supported by advanced large language models, such as ChatGPT. The output is a 10–15 pages report with clickable links to original sources, supporting transparent, evidence-based decision-making. It is particularly suited for quick assessments, situational awareness, and the early stages of response – and planning.

The timeseries offers a 10- to 20-year historical overview of weather-related impact events for any specific area or region worldwide. By systematically collecting and analyzing online media sources over time, FloodTags creates structured datasets that reveal patterns, frequencies, and trends in extreme weather events.

The standard deliverables include:

• Detailed data table (CSV) with event dates, locations, and source links
• A PowerPoint presentation with selected source excerpts
• A concise report explaining the methodology and key findings

Events covered include floods, landslides, mudflows, heavy rainfall, windstorms/hurricanes, snow, hail, droughts, and wildfires. Optional insights can be added on hydrologic causes, infrastructure performance, and impacts on people and the economy.

These time-series datasets are particularly valuable for model validation, system and risk assessments, baseline studies, strategic planning and policy development.

Where the Situation Brief offers a quick and concise overview of an event, the Detailed Event Report digs deeper, providing a more comprehensive and in-depth analysis of past weather impact events. It has detailed information on both the physical characteristics and societal dimensions of an event, including verified locations and estimated water depths, infrastructure performance and causes, sector-specific impacts such as road closures, public response and measures taken, involved stakeholders, and geolocated points linked to Google Street View.

Reports typically span 20–30 pages per event, and include maps, timelines, statistics, and storylines. All content is manually reviewed for accuracy. Reports are available for individual events or multi-year overviews, in English or any local language, and include full reference to original media sources.

The Detailed Event Report is intended for users who need high-confidence, evidence-based reporting on flood and weather impact events worldwide.