The use of volunteered geographic information and crowdsourcing in disaster management: A systematic literature review

19th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2013 - Hyperconnected World: Anything, Anywhere, Anytime

Volumn 5, Issue , 2013, Pages 3539-3548

  Horita, Flávio E A ^a   Assis, Luiz F F G ^a   Degrossi, Lívia C ^a   Zipf, Alexander ^b   de Albuquerque, João Porto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Disaster management; Systematic literature review; VGI; Volunteered geographic information

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW; VGI; VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION;

DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84893280984     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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