Introducing Groundsource: Turning news reports into data with Gemini

Google Research · 4 months ago

Google introduced Groundsource, a methodology that uses Gemini to extract flood data from global news reports and create historical disaster datasets. The initial flash flood dataset contains 2.6 million records spanning more than 150 countries from 2000 to present, with 82% of extracted events accurate enough for practical analysis. The structured data enables Google to provide urban flash flood forecasts up to 24 hours in advance through its Flood Hub service.