by Sanita Vetra-Carvalho Urban areas nowadays contain many observation networks such as CCTV cameras looking at buildings, streets, parking lots, rivers and traffic. Also, where there are people there are smartphone images,  which are another potential source of information that can be assimilated in urban flooding models to get more accurate flooding forecasts. Increasing number of research teams and organisations are using this abundance of data and while much CCTV data is available as open data, smartphone images need to be collected from the community. Below we list the networks of CCTV data and crowdsourcing sites known to us for the areas we are interested in: London and the Thames Valley, Exeter, Newcastle, Leeds, Glasgow, and Tewkesbury. This list is not complete and if you know of further sites or webcams we would love to hear from you (email to: s.vetra-carvalho@reading.ac.uk)!

Traffic Webcams in the UK

London Traffic Cameras

Highway Traffic Cameras (England)

Leeds Traffic Cameras

Newcastle Traffic Cameras

Scotland Traffic Cameras (inc. Glasgow)

Reading Town Traffic Cameras

Hampshire Traffic Cameras

Nottingham Travelwise

Transport for Greater Manchester

Northlight Images (Leicester)

Traffic Wales

 

Traffic Webcams in Republic of Ireland

Transport Infrastructure Ireland (Republic of Ireland)

Traffic Watch NI (Northern Ireland)

Dublin City Council

River Watercams

Farson Digital Watercams (UK and Ireland)

Canal and Waterway list of watercams

Avon National Trust live river cameras (Tewkesbury)

 

Coastal Cameras

UK Surfcams

The Beach Guide UK

 

Webcams

Exeter IP Cameras

World Wide Webcams

Skyline Webcams (World Wide)

 

Crowdsourcing sites

Met Office WoW site (UK wide)

FloodCrowd (UK wide)

 

Other useful websites

Flood Map from Environmental Agency

National River Flow Archive

Loddon Valley Flood Action Group

Scottish Environment Protection Agency

National Resources Wales UK government open data sets

CEH’s Environmental Information Platform

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