Emerging communications technologies for flood warnings

This project explored how new technologies could be used to communicate flood warnings to the public more effectively.

• From: Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Research and Development Programme and Environment Agency
• Published: 29 March 2021

• Category: Managing flood incidents
• Topics: Behavioural change, Communicating risk, Community response and resilience, Emergency planning, Flood warning, Health, safety and wellbeing, Incident management
• Project status: Completed
• Project code: SC050027
• Date of completion: 31 March 2009

Documents

Provision of flood warning information, observations and recommendations - summary (62KB) PDF

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Details

This project investigated new and emerging communications technologies and how they might be used to communicate flood warnings.

The report gives an understanding of current and potential future technologies. It identifies benefits and weaknesses of these methods and presents an overview of future technologies that might be used.

This information could help meet targets for how well the public is provided with information about flood warnings and what they need to do to prepare.

The project started in 2005 and was completed in 2009.

Published 29 March 2021