Crowdsourcing, citizen sensing and sensor web technologies for public and environmental health surveillance and crisis management: Trends, OGC standards and application examples

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kamel Boulos, Maged N ^a,b   Resch, Bernd ^c,d   Crowley, David N ^e   Breslin, John G ^e   Sohn, Gunho ^b,f   Burtner, Russ ^g   Pike, William A ^g   Jezierski, Eduardo ^h   Chuang, Kuo Yu S ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL GEOMATICS CENTER OF CHINA   (China)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^f YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h InSTEDD (Innovative Support to Emergencies Diseases and Disasters)   (United States)

ⁱ INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

3 d visualisation; Citizen sensing; Crisis informatics; Geo mashups; Natural user interfaces; Ogc open geosms; Ogc sensor web enablement; Public and environmental health; Semantic web; Sensors; Social web crowdsourcing; Twitter

Indexed keywords

CRISIS MANAGEMENT; DECISION MAKING; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GIS; HEALTH SURVEY; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; INFORMATICS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR; STANDARD (REGULATION); THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VISUALIZATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CROWDING; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL MEDIA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; UNITED KINGDOM;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CROWDING; DATA COLLECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOFTWARE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 83755196692     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-10-67     Document Type: Review

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