25 FloodNet - Realtime urban flood monitoring - introduction to our data product
Channel: BetaNYC
Date: 2024-04-09

NYC School of Data 2024 - March 23, 2024

25 FloodNet - Realtime urban flood monitoring - introduction to our data product
Can Sucuoglu - Data Scientist, Numina
Bea Steers - FloodNet NYC
Polly Pierone - FloodNet NYC
Charlie Mydlarz - FloodNet

FloodNet’s mission is to develop tools for real-time urban flood monitoring, implement these tools to measure flooding in New York City, and make flood data and monitoring tools available in a manner that is accessible and useful to stakeholders including residents, community-based organizations, government agencies, and researchers. 

The FloodNet team is composed of researchers and practitioners at New York University, the City University of New York, and New York City government agencies working in collaboration with stakeholders to collect and share data that contribute toward flood risk mitigation and building community flood resilience. 

FloodNet is deploying 500 realtime flood depth sensors at flood prone locations across NYC’s five boroughs. The flood sensors are typically mounted to street sign posts, measuring water levels directly beneath. As of December 2023, we have installed 81 sensors and collected flood data for a number of flood events, such as those experienced during Hurricane Ida in 2021 and Tropical Storm Ophelia in 2023.

In this demonstration we will walk through three of our publicly available data products:

Public facing data dashboard - found at dataviz.floodnet.nyc, the FloodNet data dashboard provides a realtime and historic view of flood sensor data using map and time series based plot visualizations

Data download tool & API - allows for the retrieval of realtime and historic flood data via a download tool, which also aids in query design for programmatic data access via the API

Community reports - printable reports that combine sensor data and photographs of flooding to present historical information about flooding at the neighborhood scale, produced in collaboration with New York Sea Grant.

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ABOUT NYC SCHOOL OF DATA 2024
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Big thanks to our programming partners, the Open Data Team at the NYC Office of Technology and Innovation, plus our 2024 sponsors, Reinvent Albany and ESRI. 


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