Mining social media in extreme events: Lessons learned from the DARPA Network Challenge

2010 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, HST 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 165-171

  Giacobe, Nicklaus A ^a   Kim, Hyun Woo ^a   Faraz, Avner ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extreme events; Human sensors; Participatory sensing; Social media

Indexed keywords

EXTREME EVENTS; FINANCIAL INCENTIVES; HOME LAND SECURITY; HUMAN SENSORS; MULTI-LEVEL; OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE; PARTICIPATORY SENSING; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES; SOFT SENSORS; TRUE IDENTITY;

METEOROLOGICAL BALLOONS; SENSORS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

SECURITY SYSTEMS;

EID: 78651477185     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/THS.2010.5655067     Document Type: Conference Paper

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