Comprehensive media monitoring and insights with FloodTags
At FloodTags, we turn online media into reliable, real-time and historic insights on floods and other weather-related disasters. Our five core products provide tailored solutions for monitoring, analysis, validation, and decision-making — used by governments, NGOs, researchers, and insurers around the world. Whether you need fast updates during a crisis or detailed information for long-term planning, FloodTags helps you understand what’s happening on the ground, when and where it matters most.
One platform, two ways to use it
FloodTags is a web platform you log in to in your browser, configured to your region and your hazards. The same platform, used two ways: as a reporting environment, or as a live operational workspace. The dashboard runs on our own API, which you can connect to as well, so the same events and data feed straight into the systems your team already uses.
Work events as they happen
Operational Mode is the complete FloodTags dashboard. It gives you a live workspace on events as they unfold, and it includes every report from Reports Mode:
- Interactive map with events automatically summarised by LLMs
- Every underlying post and tag behind an event, with graphs and statistics
- Automatic event detection, geolocation and severity scoring
- Advanced queries, filters and AI classifiers to focus the picture
- Notifications, and on-demand reports whenever you need them
Receive reports when you need them
Reports Mode is the FloodTags dashboard set up for reporting. You log in, see the events detected in your region, and open or download a report on any of them:
- Summaries, from a quick snapshot to a fuller report on an event’s causes and impact
- Detailed reports with maps, timelines, statistics and hand-picked photos
- Flood presence, mapped per affected area, to validate your flood model or map
- Tailored reports, made to order for a specific question, on request
Built around what your team needs
One product, one platform, with five common ways in. Pick the closest to see how it fits your work.
Early warning & Preparedness
See whether a flood is happening, where, and how it affects people, alongside your own forecasts and warnings. Confirm what is unfolding in real time, catch false alarms and misses, and keep the record for post-event review.
Insurance & reinsurance
Confirmed event footprints within hours, an early read on losses, and validated historical data for a region. Use it for payout decisions, exposure and pricing, and to check parametric triggers and your flood models.
Satellite & Earth observation
Cue and task imagery acquisition from event detection, then validate and correct remote-sensed flood maps against ground observations, catching the false positives and negatives that SAR misses in cities and flash floods.
Risk & climate analytics
Historical records and live event data for model validation, baseline studies and trend analysis. Build impact datasets and multi-year event time-series for policy, land-use planning and long-term climate-impact work.
Disaster response
In the first hours, find where impact is worst and act on first-hand reports from the ground. Track affected roads and access, receive rapid situation briefs, and match the live picture to your prepared response plans.
Your scope and options
Beyond the two modes above, you set your scope, the hazards, sources and languages you cover, and switch on the options you need.
Hazards
- Floods
- Heavy rain
- Landslides
- Snow
- Wind
- Hail
- Storms
- Drought
- Wildfire (in development)
Sources
- X
- BlueSky
- YouTube
- News media
- Websites
- RSS
Coverage
- Global, down to a single country or region
- Languages: English, Spanish, German, Persian, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Tagalog, Slovenian
- More on request
Options
- Data export / feed (Operational only)
- API access
- Retention
- WhatsApp group monitoring
- Chatbot (in development)
Example reports
A few real examples. The Situation Report and Situation Brief are generated in real time, on demand; the Detailed Situation Report, with a map, a timeline, statistics and hand-picked photos, is prepared on request and ready within a few hours.
Situation Report
The standard event report, pulling the key facts, figures and locations into a clear, structured written account of the event, ready to share across teams.
Detailed Situation Report
A fuller report with a map, a timeline, statistics and hand-picked photos, giving a complete picture of the event and how it is affecting people on the ground.
Situation Brief
An on-demand snapshot that summarizes what happened, where, the causes and the impact of the event, generated in seconds and ready to share.
Tailored analyses
A separate track alongside the subscription: one-off, bespoke work for questions the standard product does not answer. We scope each piece with you and quote it by the time it takes, then deliver a finished report or dataset rather than an ongoing feed.
Tailored data analysis reports
A deep-dive study of a specific event, area or question, going beyond the standard reports. We agree the question with you and deliver a written analysis with the findings, the method and the supporting data.
Manually validated data points
Hand-checked, geolocated points that confirm what happened for a defined event or area, each traceable to its source. Used as ground-truth to validate models, flood maps or other datasets.
Event Time-series
A multi-year record of past events for a region, showing where and when flooding occurred over time. A basis for baselines, trend analysis and long-term risk and climate work.