BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (Aug. 27, 2026) — The Water Institute announced today a new partnership with ICEYE, one of the world’s leading Earth observation companies, to advance and scale FloodID®, a flood intelligence and decision-support technology developed by the Institute. FloodID began as a tool to help Louisiana make better decisions before, during, and after flood events. This partnership creates a path to bring that same capability to communities and agencies well beyond the Gulf Coast.
When water is rising, decision makers need timely, localized, and reliable information to understand what is happening, what may happen next, and where people, infrastructure, and property may be at risk. FloodID is an operational flood intelligence solution that provides actionable flood and decision information for emergency managers, infrastructure operators, industry users and communities.
Launched in Louisiana, FloodID is now utilized in emergency operation centers in multiple hurricane-prone states and municipalities. Additionally, with the support of Amazon and access to Amazon Web Service technology, a pilot FloodID product has been made freely available to users across federal, state, and local government organizations in the United States during the 2026 hurricane season. Currently, over 200 users are enrolled in the pilot program.
With ICEYE’s global reach and operational expertise across more than 30 countries, the new partnership will accelerate the deployment of FloodID across the United States and beyond.
"FloodID began with a clear purpose: to put better, faster, more localized flood intelligence into the hands of the people making decisions when lives, property, and communities are at risk,” said Beaux Jones, President and CEO of The Water Institute. “Louisiana and the Gulf Coast have long been on the front lines of water-related challenges, and that experience has helped generate science, expertise, and technology with relevance far beyond our region. By partnering with ICEYE, we are giving FloodID the pathway to reach more decision makers, in more places, at the moments when better information can make all the difference.”
FloodID’s operational intelligence, combined with ICEYE’s persistent Earth observation capabilities, will advance the sophistication of information decision makers use to anticipate flooding and other natural hazards. ICEYE’s satellite technology supports Earth monitoring day or night and in all weather, which is especially relevant during flood and severe weather events.
"ICEYE has built its flood intelligence platform around delivering trusted information throughout every stage of a flood event, from early warning through active response and post-event assessment," said Will Panchaud, Senior Director of Product, Solutions at ICEYE. "FloodID adds another important dimension to that capability by strengthening our predictive intelligence. Together, we're giving customers an even richer understanding of what may happen next while continuing to deliver the observed flood intelligence they've come to rely on.”
As part of the partnership, core members of the team that built, deployed, and operated FloodID have joined ICEYE while ensuring a seamless transition for partners currently using the tool. The transition also creates opportunities for continued collaboration between The Water Institute and ICEYE beyond flooding and into broader coastal resilience issues.
“The methods that underlie FloodID are designed to be uniquely scalable, not only for flood prediction but for a range of use cases that build upon hydrologic predictions. Joining ICEYE creates an extraordinary opportunity to build upon the foundations established at the Institute and scale those capabilities globally,” said Hugh Roberts, former Senior Vice President at The Water Institute and incoming Head of Predictive Intelligence at ICEYE. “By combining leading-edge predictive methods with one of the world’s most advanced Earth observation and flood intelligence platforms, we can broaden impact through access to actionable intelligence. This is just the beginning of what becomes possible when predictive intelligence is paired with persistent Earth observation at scale.”
Jeffrey Schweitzer, Amazon's disaster relief technology and innovation lead, said, "From Louisiana to Texas and beyond, we've watched flooding become harder to predict: atmospheric rivers dropping 30 inches of rain, storm surge colliding with inland flooding, and thousand-year floods arriving with unsettling frequency. This collaboration can help communities across many states prepare in advance. Better information means communities that are ready before the water rises."
The partnership to scale the impact of FloodID supports The Water Institute's mission to reduce the vulnerability of people, ecosystems and economies. It also aligns with the work of The Water Innovation Studio of Louisiana at The Water Institute, which was created in partnership with Louisiana Innovation (LA.IO), a division of Louisiana Economic Development, to help move water innovation from research to deployment, from technical capability to market opportunity, and from Louisiana-based expertise to broader impact. FloodID provides an early and tangible example of that pathway.
"This is exactly why we created the Water Innovation Studio," said Josh Fleig, LED Chief Innovation Officer. "Louisiana has long been a laboratory for solving some of the world's most complex water challenges. FloodID demonstrates what is possible when our research institutions, entrepreneurs and public partners work together to move promising ideas from the lab to the marketplace. It is an early proof point that Louisiana can transform homegrown expertise into globally competitive technologies and businesses."
ABOUT THE WATER INSTITUTE
The Water Institute is driven by the mission to reduce the vulnerability of people, communities, ecosystems, and economies through transformative approaches to interconnected environmental and social challenges. As an independent, applied research organization, the Institute advances actionable research, technology, and planning to support science-informed decision making. The Institute serves as a thought partner, leveraging expertise in multiple disciplines and engaging across multiple sectors — government, private industry, academia, and communities. The Institute was founded in 2011 in the aftermath of devastating hurricanes and oil spills. Headquartered in Louisiana, the Institute draws on its roots in the Mississippi River Delta and the Gulf Coast, where water is both a strength and a vulnerability, to tackle challenges wherever they are. The Water Institute envisions a future where all of humanity can adapt and thrive alongside nature in a changing world. Learn more at www.thewaterinstitute.org.
ABOUT ICEYE
ICEYE is the world leader in sovereign intelligence from space. We deliver persistent monitoring capabilities to detect and respond to changes in any location on Earth. ICEYE owns the world's largest and most advanced SAR (synthetic aperture radar) satellite constellation. To our customers we provide intelligence with unmatched quality, latency and revisit times, in any weather, day or night. To governments who choose to operate their own constellation we provide this proven capability as a sovereign system. ICEYE-built constellations serve customers in defense and intelligence, environmental monitoring, insurance and emergency management. We enable fast decisions that contribute to a safer future. Natively European, founded in Finland. ICEYE operates globally with over 1,000 employees.We’re a growing international team of builders. iceye.com/joinus
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