'Canary in a Coal Mine': Monitoring air quality and detecting environmental incidents by harvesting twitter

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1855-1860

  Smid, Henricus ^a   Winterboer, Andi ^a   Mast, Patrick ^a   Evers, Vanessa ^a   Tromp, Maarten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anomaly detection; Citizen participation; Environmental monitoring; Incident visualization; Social sensing

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; MONITORING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ANOMALY DETECTION; CITIZEN'S PARTICIPATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GENERAL PUBLICS; INCIDENT VISUALIZATION; MICRO-BLOGGING PLATFORMS; REAL- TIME; SOCIAL SENSING; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS;

COAL MINES;

EID: 79957970315     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1979742.1979890     Document Type: Conference Paper

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