Mausam vs SnapFlood

MAUSAM is a Mobile App of the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Government of India to provide seamless and user- friendly access to weather products available on https://mausam.imd.gov.in/. Users can access observed weather, forecasts, radar images and be proactively warned of impending weather events. The app’s development and deployment is being led jointly by ICRISAT’s Digital Agriculture & Youth (DAY) team and Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) under the Monsoon Mission program of MoES.

SnapFlood is a citizen science app that enables people to quickly capture and upload photos and videos of urban floods. The app helps document when and where floods occur, along with their severity, by building a real-time archive of flood-related images and videos. This growing database can support scientific research, engineering solutions, and policy decisions, while also helping municipalities respond more effectively during extreme weather events. The app has been developed by the RAFT (Rainfall-runoff Analysis and Forecasting Tools) group at IIT Hyderabad. The idea originated in 2019 during a project funded by the Government of India's Department of Science and Technology (DST-SPLICE, Climate Change Programme), National Network Programme on Urban Climate (NUC), under the National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change (NMSKCC). Earlier efforts were also supported by the Government of India's AI CoE for Sustainable Cities project. With SnapFlood, anyone can "Snap the Flood" safely and contribute to building a valuable flood archive for science, engineering, and policy.