Leveraging geospatially-oriented social media communications in disaster response

ISCRAM 2012 Conference Proceedings - 9th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  McClendon, Susannah ^a   Robinson, Anthony C ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crisis management; Geographic information; Mashups; Social media

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS; EMERGENCY SERVICES; INFORMATION FILTERING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CRISIS MANAGEMENT; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; INFORMATION RESOURCE; MASHUPS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SUPPORT CRISIS MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84905569511     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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