A digital twin for flood management is not a fashionable 3D map, a dashboard filled with sensors, or a model with artificial intelligence attach...
Published by Mrinmoy Majumder, Associate Professor at National Institute of Technology Agartala
A digital twin for flood management is not a fashionable 3D map, a dashboard filled with sensors, or a model with artificial intelligence attached to it. It is a continuously updated decision-support system that connects the physical water environment with data, models, forecasts, and human action.
Its real promise lies in helping decision-makers answer better questions before a flood becomes a disaster:
What is happening now?
What is likely to happen next?
Who and what are most exposed?
Which action reduces risk most effectively?
How uncertain are we?
When designed around these questions, digital twins can become a practical bridge between hydroinformatics research and flood-resilient communities. When designed only as technological showpieces, they risk becoming another expensive platform with little operational value. The challenge is therefore not simply to build a twin, but to build one that people can trust, use, maintain, and act upon.
Clcik here to watch the video : https://youtu.be/bGTFDeTyw10
Its real promise lies in helping decision-makers answer better questions before a flood becomes a disaster:
What is happening now?
What is likely to happen next?
Who and what are most exposed?
Which action reduces risk most effectively?
How uncertain are we?
When designed around these questions, digital twins can become a practical bridge between hydroinformatics research and flood-resilient communities. When designed only as technological showpieces, they risk becoming another expensive platform with little operational value. The challenge is therefore not simply to build a twin, but to build one that people can trust, use, maintain, and act upon.
Clcik here to watch the video : https://youtu.be/bGTFDeTyw10