Crowdsourcing hazardous weather reports from citizens via twittersphere under the short warning lead times of EF5 intensity tornado conditions

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 2231-2241

  Chatfield, Akemi Takeoka ^a   Brajawidagda, Uuf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER RADAR; HAZARDS; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; NEXT GENERATION NETWORKS; RESEARCH; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

CONTENT ANALYSIS; CROWDSOURCING; DISASTER RESPONSE; E-GOVERNMENT; EARLY WARNING; NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICES; SOCIAL MEDIA; TORNADO WARNINGS;

TORNADOES;

EID: 84902293146     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2014.281     Document Type: Conference Paper

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