A Review of Volunteered Geographic Information for Disaster Management

Geography Compass

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 237-250

  Haworth, Billy ^a,b   Bruce, Eleanor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b BUSHFIRE AND NATURAL HAZARDS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA MANAGEMENT; DATA QUALITY; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; GIS; LITERATURE REVIEW; SPATIAL DATA;

EID: 84928818011     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gec3.12213     Document Type: Article

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