Harvesting ambient geospatial information from social media feeds

GeoJournal

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 319-338

  Stefanidis, Anthony ^a   Crooks, Andrew ^a   Radzikowski, Jacek ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient intelligence; Social media; Social network analysis; Volunteered geographic information

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE; EARTH SCIENCES; PLANNING;

GEO-SPATIAL ANALYSIS; GEO-SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; GEOGRAPHIC FOOTPRINTS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS; SOCIAL MEDIA; VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

DATA MANAGEMENT; GIS; HARVESTING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MEDIA ROLE; SOCIAL NETWORK;

EID: 84876017555     PISSN: 03432521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10708-011-9438-2     Document Type: Article

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