Cloud to Street

Cloud to Street equips governments with critical disaster risk information and resilience planning, and empowers vulnerable communities that are left off traditional flood maps. Our platform combines global satellite imagery, machine learning, social media, and community input in order to analyze social and physical vulnerability to floods anywhere in the world in any browser within seconds. We customize this technology for an area to create accessible ‘living vulnerability’ maps that update every time a river course changes, someone Tweets about a flood in their area, or a satellite takes a picture. This approach is one tenth of the price of a traditional flood assessment and adjusts based on input from communities on the ground. Our approach enables communities and their decision-makers to collaborate more transparently in political and planning processes to reduce their risks. Our goal is to ensure all vulnerable communities have at least risk information and to conduct comprehensive assessments for the 15 most flood vulnerable countries, which represent 80% of those at risk and over 15 million highly vulnerable people.