Highlights: July 2025 Flood Meet-ups
On July 9-10, 2025, EOTEC DevNet’s Regional Flood Working Groups gathered for virtual meet-ups across Africa, the Americas, Asia-Oceania, and Europe. More than 135 participants joined the exchanges on innovative approaches to flood forecasting, early warning, and anticipatory action.
Each regional session featured Spotlight presentations on EO-based tools and projects, as well as open discussions on data and tools accessibility, and how to connect communities with the right data and training.
We thank all presenters, Working Group leads, and participants for your ongoing contributions. Your expertise and collaboration are vital to improving flood resilience through Earth observation.
🔎 Spotlight Presentations
Key presentations from the meetings are now available online:
Africa: VOLTALARM, a flood early warning system in the Volta Basin, and TEMBO Africa, a pilot anticipatory action initiative in Kenya and Ghana.
Americas: MapBiomas, a surface water monitoring and flood mapping platform.
Asia-Oceania: DASTAA, a modular platform integrating EO, GeoAI, and citizen science; and MyDEWETRA.world, a multi-hazard risk analysis tool developed under WMO’s Associated Flood Management Programme.
Europe: EO4Flood, a new ESA-founded project to improve flood forecast models using Earth Observation data and hydrological models.
📢 Coming Soon: Updated Flood and New Drought Tools Trackers & Needs Assessment Guidance
We’re currently refining and developing our EO Tools Trackers and beta testing a new needs assessment guidance to help identify regional capacity gaps. Stay tuned for updates in the next round of WG sessions!
📆 Upcoming Opportunities
We invite the community to take part in these upcoming EOTEC DevNet events:
- Regional Task Team Meetings: September 17-18, 2025
- Drought WG Regional Meetings: October 15-16, 2025
- Webinar on AI in EO Education: November 12, 2025
- Next Flood WG Meetings: January 2026
🔗 Get involved
Have a tool, project, or challenge to share with the group? We welcome contributions from all regions. Contact us at secretariat@eotecdev.net or visit eotecdev.net/connect to join the conversation.
