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Published: 8 January 2024
University of Glasgow researchers have developed the first method of measuring the speed of river flows by analysing video footage captured from orbit. Their analysis techniques could replace or enhance the way governments and land managers currently monitor rivers, and improve the ways that floods are predicted.