Does the spatiotemporal distribution of tweets match the spatiotemporal distribution of flood phenomena? A study about the River Elbe Flood in June 2013

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 747-751

  Herfort, Benjamin ^a   De Albuquerque, João Porto ^a,b   Schelhorn, Svend Jonas ^a   Zipf, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Crisis management; Flood; Situational awareness; Social media; Twitter; Water level

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; DATA MINING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER LEVELS;

CRISIS MANAGEMENT; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS; SPATIOTEMPORAL DISTRIBUTIONS; TWITTER;

FLOODS;

EID: 84905833906     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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