Flooding through the lens of mobile phone activity

Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference, GHTC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 279-286

  Pastor Escuredo, David ^a   Morales Guzmán, Alfredo ^a   Torres Fernández, Yolanda ^a   Bauer, Jean Martin ^b   Wadhwa, Amit ^b   Castro Correa, Carlos ^c   Romanoff, Liudmyla ^d   Lee, Jong Gun ^d   Rutherford, Alex ^d   Frias Martinez, Vanessa ^e   Oliver, Nuria ^f   Frias Martinez, Enrique ^f   Luengo Oroz, Miguel ^d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b World Food Programme   (Ethiopia)

^c Presidencia de la República de México ^*  (Mexico)

^d UNITED NATIONS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^f TELEFONICA RESEARCH   (Spain)

Author keywords

Big Data for Development; Emergency Service Allocation; Human Behavior Modeling; Mobile Data Analysis; Natural Disaster Response

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CELLULAR TELEPHONES; CLOCK AND DATA RECOVERY CIRCUITS (CDR CIRCUITS); FLOODS; NASA; POPULATION STATISTICS; RAIN GAGES; RISK MANAGEMENT;

ACTIVITY INFORMATIONS; COMMUNICATION ACTIVITIES; HUMAN BEHAVIOR MODELING; INFORMATION AWARENESS; INFORMATION CONCERNING; NATURAL DISASTERS; SERVICE ALLOCATIONS; SOURCES OF INFORMATIONS;

EMERGENCY SERVICES;

EID: 84930251892     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GHTC.2014.6970293     Document Type: Conference Paper

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