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Flooding occurs all across the United States.

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And floods are impacting more people
due to increasing urbanization

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and population growth. Coastal storm surges...

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...riverine floods......and flash floods
cause an average of 80

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deaths and 50 billion dollars in damage per year.

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There is a lot we can do to better prepare for
floods, limit their damage, and bounce

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faster and stronger afterwards.
The Flood Apex Program

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at the Department of Homeland Security
Science and Technology Directorate

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invests in new innovation to help America
prepare for its costliest disaster.

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Flood Apex is advancing new technologies

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to help three priority areas:

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Priority One: Assist First responders on
the scene as floods occur

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warning citizens, managing evacuations, rescuing

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and restoring services. We are developing low cost,

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, light-weight, networked flood sensors
to warn first responders

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and emergency managers of potential danger early.

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These new flood sensors can save lives
and property by alerting cell phones

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and other devices of dangerous flood conditions.

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Also, we are adapting cloud-penetrating
radar satellites to analyze floods in

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progress and detect damage as it occurs.

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This allows first responders and safety crews
to deploy where they are needed the most.

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Priority Two: Support Individuals, homeowners

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and businesses that need financial protection
and affordable insurance

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to help them rebuild and recover.
We're leveraging Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence with new remote sensors to

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improve understanding of flood risk
in near real time.

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This technology will help FEMA improve

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access to flood insurance and speed up assistance

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to disaster survivors. Priority Three:

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Help States and local communities to

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build resiliency, mitigate, and respond to floods.

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Because everything needs to bounce back together.

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Flood Apex is developing new analytics

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and visualization tools to model the potential impact of flooding.

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Emergency managers can see which roads,

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dams, bridges,

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electrical utilities, schools

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or medical facilities are threatened.

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Community planners can decide where
to invest their dollars

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to mitigate the effects of flooding.

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And land developers can use new national
standards for flood-proofing

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so that they can construct stronger and more

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resilient buildings and infrastructure.

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The Department of Homeland Security Science
and Technology Directorate's

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Flood Apex program is rethinking our approach

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to America's costliest disaster.

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For more information, visit us at
scitech.dhs.gov