Harnessing the crowdsourcing power of social media for disaster relief

IEEE Intelligent Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 10-14

  Gao, Huiji ^a   Barbier, Geoffrey ^a   Goolsby, Rebecca ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

coordination; crisis map; crowdsourcing; disaster relief; intelligent systems; relief organization

Indexed keywords

CRISIS MAP; CROWDSOURCING; DISASTER RELIEF; INFORMATION PROPAGATION; RELIEF ORGANIZATIONS; SOCIAL MEDIA;

DECISION MAKING; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS;

DISASTER PREVENTION;

EID: 79959545846     PISSN: 15411672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIS.2011.52     Document Type: Article

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