Exploring the geographical relations between social media and flood phenomena to improve situational awareness: A study about the river Elbe flood in June 2013

Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 55-71

  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

Disaster management; Emergency management; Flood; Situation awareness; Social media; Volunteered geographic information

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA MINING; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; FLOODS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING SYSTEMS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; SITUATION AWARENESS; SOCIAL MEDIA; VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84924693660     PISSN: 18632351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03611-3_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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