Going beyond citizen data collection with mapster: A mobile+cloud real-time citizen science experiment

Proceedings - 7th IEEE International Conference on e-Science Workshops, eScienceW 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-6

  Liu, Yong ^a   Piyawongwisal, Pratch ^a   Handa, Sahil ^a   Yu, Liang ^a   Xu, Yan ^b   Samuel, Arjmand ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

citizen science; data integration; emergency management; mapster; spatiotemporal animation; urban flooding response; Windows Phone 7

Indexed keywords

CITIZEN SCIENCE; DATA INTEGRATION; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; MAPSTER; URBAN FLOODING;

ANIMATION; CIVIL DEFENSE; DATA ACQUISITION; DISASTERS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEMANTICS; SMARTPHONES; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); VISUALIZATION;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84863057366     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/eScienceW.2011.23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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