Real-time crisis mapping of natural disasters using social media

IEEE Intelligent Systems

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 9-17

  Middleton, Stuart E ^a   Middleton, Lee ^a   Modafferi, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

crisis management; crisis mapping; geoparsing; intelligent systems; natural disaster; natural language processing; NLP; VGI; volunteered geographic information

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MAPPING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CRISIS MANAGEMENT; CRISIS MAPPINGS; GEOPARSING; NATURAL DISASTERS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NLP; VGI; VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION;

DISASTERS;

EID: 84903152550     PISSN: 15411672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIS.2013.126     Document Type: Article

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