A geographic approach for combining social media and authoritative data towards identifying useful information for disaster management

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 667-689

  de Albuquerque, João Porto ^a,b   Herfort, Benjamin ^b   Brenning, Alexander ^b,c,d   Zipf, Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

crisis; disaster; emergency management; flood; Germany; social media; Twitter; Volunteered Geographic Information

Indexed keywords

CRISIS MANAGEMENT; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; FLOOD DAMAGE; FLOODING; GIS; MASS MEDIA; MEDIA ROLE; SATELLITE DATA; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ELBE RIVER;

EID: 84930039252     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2014.996567     Document Type: Article

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