Capturing Damage Assessment with a Spatial Video: An Example of a Building and Street-Scale Analysis of Tornado-Related Mortality in Joplin, Missouri, 2011

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1522-1538

  Curtis, Andrew ^a   Fagan, William F ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

damage assessment; elderly; health vulnerability; spatial video; tornado

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DAMAGE; ELDERLY POPULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; NEIGHBORHOOD; PUBLIC HEALTH; TORNADO;

JOPLIN; MISSOURI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84886440256     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2013.784098     Document Type: Article

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