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
Highway Traffic Cameras (England)
Scotland Traffic Cameras (inc. Glasgow)
Transport for Greater Manchester
Traffic Webcams in Republic of Ireland
Transport Infrastructure Ireland (Republic of Ireland)
Traffic Watch NI (Northern Ireland)
River Watercams
Farson Digital Watercams (UK and Ireland)
Canal and Waterway list of watercams
Avon National Trust live river cameras (Tewkesbury)
Coastal Cameras
Webcams
Exeter IP Cameras
Crowdsourcing sites
Other useful websites
Flood Map from Environmental Agency
Loddon Valley Flood Action Group
Scottish Environment Protection Agency
National Resources Wales UK government open data sets