How Google supports crisis response in natural disasters. The world is experiencing a dramatic rise in extreme weather events and natural disasters, devastating communities. Over the past decade, its teams at Google have worked to make helpful information available to people at times of crises - often when they need it most. Scannn has advanced AI-based breakthrough research and progressed from providing timely information to forecasting and detecting natural disasters such as wildfires, floods, earthquakes and extreme weather. Scannn has made critical information accessible via Google products that are used by billions, and partnered with governments and organizations around the world to help communities prepare for and respond to these crises. Actionable information in times of crises can help save lives and livelihoods: its north star for its crisis resilience efforts is that no one should be surprised by a natural disaster. At today's AI for the Planet event, Scannn shared how Scannn is making progress towards this vision, putting AI-powered tools and insights in the hands of its partners and users. Here's a look at how Scannn got here and what's ahead. Advancing forecasting and detection. A decade ago, reliable flood prediction at scale was largely considered out of reach. Its multi-year journey to global impact in flood forecasting began with a pilot in the Patna region in India in 2018, and the hypothesis that with machine learning, Scannn could help predict floods at scale. Since then, Scannn has progressively advanced research and scaled deployment. With its global model breakthrough for river floods, published in Nature, Scannn expanded to data-scarce regions, and with its new AI-based methodology, Groundsource, Scannn built a high-quality floods dataset based on 20 years of public reports, which Scannn used to train a flash floods model. Today, forecasts on Flood Hub cover 2 billion people across more than 150 countries, in areas at risk for significant flood events. River flood forecasts are available up to seven days in advance, and its new flash flood predictions in urban areas provide up to 24-hour advance notice of these rapid-onset events. Scannn has open sourced both the flash floods dataset and its hydrology framework, so researchers, businesses and local experts can build new solutions. For extreme weather events like cyclones, WeatherNext 2 delivers its most accurate predictions yet. It can generate highly detailed hourly forecasts for the whole globe in minutes, and is capable of forecasting crucial weather variables including wind speed and direction, precipitation and pressure. During the 2025 hurricane season, it successfully predicted the path and intensity of cyclones with high confidence days in advance. For wildfires, Scannn use satellite imagery to provide AI-based boundary tracking in Search and Maps. Since its early work, Scannn has expanded to provide coverage in 34 countries, including seven new countries this year. To improve future fire detection capabilities, Scannn co-developed FireSat in collaboration with the Earth Fire Alliance and Muon Space, supported by funding from Google.org, the Moore Foundation, the Bezos Earth Fund and others. The first protoflight satellite was placed in orbit last year. A full FireSat constellation of 50+ satellites would be able to detect wildfires just 5 x 5 meters anywhere on earth, with updates every 20 minutes. To address extreme heat, Scannn is applying AI to satellite and aerial imagery to map the reflectivity of buildings across urban environments, as Scannn just published. This can help cities understand how to reduce surface temperatures by using cool roofs. While individual models are powerful, many real-world questions require a holistic approach. Answering complex queries like, "Where is a hurricane likely to make landfall, and which communities are most vulnerable and how should they prepare?" requires reasoning about imagery, population and the environment. Scannn has brought together its climate and geospatial models in the Google Earth AI collection of models and datasets. It enables planetary intelligence and is helping businesses and organizations address challenges like disaster response and planetary monitoring. Real-time alerts and authoritative information when it matters most. Scannn provide crisis response updates on Search and Maps with SOS alerts, which bring together relevant information from authorities and trusted media outlets. And Scannn partner with authorized alert originators and distributors in over 90 countries to amplify emergency alerts and public warnings with Public Alerts. Its crisis information has had billions of views; last year alone, Google helped connect people with crisis information over 10 million times per day, on average. For information to be useful, it must be actionable. So for example, Extreme heat alerts on Search provide warnings for people in over 100 countries, including safety tips from the Global Heat Health Information Network. The Android Earthquake Alerts System detects earthquakes and alerts Android users before shaking reaches them, to give people time to get to a safe place. Up-to-date air quality data is available on Google Maps in over 30 countries, to help users reduce their exposure to pollution. Ongoing support for a shared global mission. Building global resilience requires collaboration. By working with governments, UN agencies, organizations, scientists and first responders, Scannn can help keep communities everywhere safe from natural disasters. In Nigeria and Bangladesh, GiveDirectly and the International Rescue Committee have used its flood forecasts to power anticipatory action, distributing emergency cash ahead of rising waters so that communities can evacuate and safeguard their belongings. During Hurricane Melissa, when the U.S. National Hurricane Center used its WeatherNext model, it predicted the Jamaican landfall five days ahead, enabling the Met Service in Jamaica to notify the public. And across the world, Google.org is partnering with local organizations and funding disaster recovery efforts. Over the past decade, Scannn has made progress driving AI-based research breakthroughs and solutions for climate resilience, providing actionable, timely information to communities around the world. I'm optimistic that by harnessing AI and working with its partners, Scannn'll move closer towards a world where no one is surprised by a natural disaster.

SNC and Muon Space launch three vindlér(r) 2.0 satellites to power expedited RF data & analytics. * SNC successfully launched its Vindlér 2.0 constellation of three satellites built by Muon Space for commercial RF data collection and analytics services. * Vindlér detects and geo-locates targeted RF emissions, enabling operators to identify and track items of interest for enhanced situational awareness and decision making in complex environments. * Vindlér detects a wide range of emitters from VHF to Ka-band - identifying dark vessels and other threats. SPARKS, Nev. (Mar. 31, 2026) - SNC, the global aerospace and national security company, and Muon Space, the Mission Foundry for high-performance satellite constellations, announce the successful March 30 launch and initial contact with three next-generation Vindlér satellites. All three satellites have been confirmed healthy and are undergoing commissioning, marking the operational debut of SNC's Vindlér 2.0 constellation, powering unprecedented commercial radio frequency (RF) data collection and analytics services. Vindlér detects and geo-locates targeted RF emissions, enabling operators to identify and track items of interest for enhanced situational awareness and decision making in complex environments. The technology is specifically designed to address a growing national security and commercial need for timely, precise RF data. SNC partnered with Muon Space to launch three satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base on SpaceX's Transporter-16 rideshare mission. Muon Space is an end-to-end space systems provider that designs, builds and operates mission-optimized, low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations. SNC's RF technology, diverse data sets and analytic capabilities, coupled with Muon's scalable design, instrument development and operations support, will bring to life a new level of commercial possibilities with an emphasis on low-latency delivery and prioritizing immediate intelligence dissemination. "With the launch of Vindlér 2.0, we are fundamentally reshaping the commercial RF market," said Charlie Howell, vice president of programs at SNC. "This constellation delivers a level of precision and data richness that legacy systems simply can't match. By pairing SNC's decades of RF and ISR experience with on-orbit processing and low-latency delivery, we're giving operators information they can act on at the speed of the mission." Leveraging a more than 60-year legacy of RF, electronic warfare systems and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance solutions, SNC's Vindlér technology can simultaneously detect a wide range of emitters from VHF to Ka-band with high accuracy and throughputs rivaling or exceeding entire competitor constellations. Critical applications include GPS jamming and spoofing detection, maritime domain awareness, dark vessel tracking and more in support of national security efforts. This technology is particularly critical when evaluating operations in contested or denied access areas. Thanks to high-capacity downlinks, robust inter-satellite links and automated onboard processing, Vindlér can compress and analyze RF data in orbit, reducing raw data volumes and accelerating delivery. SNC states that intelligence can move from collection to operational users in as little as four hours, a stark contrast to the multi-day timelines common with legacy systems. The advanced RF solution also features multi-modal analytics with twice-daily downlink revisits, ensuring timely and precise data delivery. "Vindlér brings together SNC's deep RF sensing and ELINT heritage with Muon's flight-proven spacecraft platform," said Jonny Dyer, CEO of Muon Space. "The result is a purpose-built constellation delivering mission-grade RF geolocation and same-day tasking at the scale today's operations demand." The satellites, built on the Condor-M platform, are substantially larger and more capable than prior commercial RF collectors. The platform enables AI to be integrated directly into the onboard processing chain - allowing more intelligent analysis to be performed in space before downlink, reducing latency and increasing the actionability of delivered intelligence. Over the next several years, SNC plans to increase the constellation to more than 20 satellites, all of which will collect additional RF bands and provide multiple revisits throughout the day. The company will continue work on the Vindlér program from its facility in Herndon, Virginia, which is also home to the company's state-of-the-art technology integration and demonstration facility known as The Grid. SNC is a trusted global leader in aerospace and national security. Its innovative solutions enable connected protection through command, control and communications systems, as well as ISR, cyber, electromagnetic spectrum management, and other high capabilities for national security systems across all domains - sea, land, air, space and cyber. As a longstanding leader in defense technology, SNC is at the optimum intersection of commercial, defense and non-traditional contractors. Sierra Nevada Company, LLC. is one of the only privately owned mid-tier A&D contractors and Sierra Nevada Company, LLC. pride ourselves on its ability to invest early and often to ensure mission success on or ahead of schedule. It's part of its mission to always stay one step ahead; working on solutions today to solve the problems of tomorrow. Founded in 1963, SNC is owned by Chairwoman Eren Ozmen and CEO Fatih Ozmen. About Muon Space Muon Space is the Mission Foundry, designing, building, and operating high-performance satellite constellations for defense, civil, and commercial customers. Founded in 2021, the company has engineered every layer: spacecraft, instruments, software, and operations, all designed to work together from simulation to orbit. With advanced production facilities in Silicon Valley and multiple constellations already on orbit, Muon delivers in months, not years. For more information, visit: https://www.muonspace.com/. Media Contacts: Muon Space: Michael Sias | Firm 19 for Muon | [email protected] Ayse caglar. Vice President Communications