Situational awareness in smart environments: socio-mobile and sensor data fusion for emergency response to disasters

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 239-257

  Foresti, Gian Luca ^a   Farinosi, Manuela ^a   Vernier, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Big multimedia data; Disaster management; Optical and audio sensors; Participatory technologies; Situational awareness services

Indexed keywords

DISASTER PREVENTION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MULTIMEDIA SERVICES; RISK MANAGEMENT; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SMART SENSORS;

AUDIO SENSORS; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; MULTIMEDIA DATA; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES; SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATIONS; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS; USER-GENERATED CONTENT;

EMERGENCY SERVICES;

EID: 84925521497     PISSN: 18685137     EISSN: 18685145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12652-014-0227-x     Document Type: Article

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