Integration and dissemination of citizen reported and seismically derived earthquake information via social network technologies

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6065 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 42-53

  Guy, Michelle ^a   Earle, Paul ^a   Ostrum, Chris ^a   Gruchalla, Kenny ^b   Horvath, Scott ^c  

^a US Geological Survey National Earthquake Information Center   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizen reporting; Earthquake; Geospatial temporal data; Hazard; Micro blogging; Social network; Time series; Twitter

Indexed keywords

BLOGGING; GEO-SPATIAL; MICRO-BLOGGING; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TEMPORAL DATA;

DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE RECORDING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TECHNOLOGY; TIME SERIES;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 77953764120     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13062-5_6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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