Spatial patterns and demographic indicators of effective social media content during the horsethief canyon fire of 2012

Cartography and Geographic Information Science

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 78-89

  Kent, Joshua D ^a   Capello, Henry T ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gwr; Hot spot analysis; Nearest neighbor; Ols; Situational awareness; Spatial autocorrelation; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY SERVICES; POPULATION STATISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

GWR; HOT SPOT ANALYSE; HOTSPOTS; NEAREST-NEIGHBOUR; OLS; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS; USER-GENERATED; WILDFIRE;

FIRES;

AUTOCORRELATION; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA MINING; HAZARD MANAGEMENT; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORK; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VISUALIZATION; WILDFIRE; WORLD WIDE WEB;

JACKSON; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 84878605190     PISSN: 15230406     EISSN: 15450465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15230406.2013.776727     Document Type: Article

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