Supporting disaster reconnaissance with social media data: A design-oriented case study of the 2013 Colorado floods

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 632-641

  Dashti, Shideh ^a   Palen, Leysia ^a   Heris, Mehdi P ^a   Anderson, Kenneth M ^a   Anderson, T Jennings ^a   Anderson, Scott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorado floods; Crisis informatics; Engineering reconnaissance; Extreme events; Infrastructure performance; Situational awareness; Social media

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CRISIS INFORMATICS; ENGINEERING RECONNAISSANCE; EXTREME EVENTS; INFRASTRUCTURE PERFORMANCE; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS; SOCIAL MEDIA;

FLOODS;

EID: 84905837187     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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