Data Attribution & Licensing
Flood Sentinel is a forecasting engine. It reads from your organisation's database. Attribution obligations for source data are the responsibility of the data provider.
How Data Flows
Flood Sentinel does not fetch data from external APIs directly. Your data pipeline (such as Flood Data Builder, your SCADA system, or manual CSV imports) is responsible for:
- Sourcing data from government agencies, sensors, and other providers
- Complying with each data source's licensing terms
- Displaying required attribution where source data is shown
Flood Sentinel transforms this data into forecasts using machine learning models. The forecasts are derived products, not raw reproductions of source data.
Common Australian Data Sources
If your data pipeline sources from the following providers, ensure you comply with their terms:
| Provider | Data Types | Licence | Attribution Required |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bureau of Meteorology | Rainfall, temperature, weather forecasts, flood warnings | CC BY 3.0 AU | Yes — © Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology |
| WaterNSW | River levels, flows, dam levels | Varies by endpoint — check waternsw.com.au | Yes — acknowledge WaterNSW as data source |
| SILO (Qld Gov) | Gridded rainfall, evaporation, climate | CC BY 4.0 | Yes — © State of Queensland, SILO |
| Manly Hydraulics Lab | Tidal data, ocean levels | Crown Copyright (NSW) | Yes — © NSW Government, MHL |
Open Source Acknowledgements
Flood Sentinel is built on the following open-source technologies:
- Python — PSF Licence
- Flask — BSD-3-Clause
- scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoost — Apache 2.0 / MIT
- pandas, NumPy, SciPy — BSD-3-Clause
- Bootstrap — MIT
- Leaflet — BSD-2-Clause
Licensing Questions
If you have questions about data licensing or attribution requirements for your deployment, contact legal@floodtech.com.au.