Tweeting and tornadoes

ISCRAM 2014 Conference Proceedings - 11th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 319-323

  Blanford, Justine I ^a   Bernhardt, Jase ^a   Savelyev, Alexander ^a   Wong Parodi, Gabrielle ^b   Carleton, Andrew M ^a   Titley, David W ^a   MacEachren, Alan M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency response; GIS; Message warnings and alerts; Risk communication; Situational awareness; Spatial and temporal visualization; Tornado; Twitter

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TORNADOES;

EMERGENCY RESPONSE; MESSAGE WARNINGS AND ALERTS; RISK COMMUNICATION; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS; TWITTER;

EMERGENCY SERVICES;

EID: 84905820558     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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