Geo-located tweets. Enhancing mobility maps and capturing cross-border movement

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Blanford, Justine I ^a   Huang, Zhuojie ^a   Savelyev, Alexander ^a   MacEachren, Alan M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS BORDER MOVEMENT; DAILY MOVEMENT PATTERN; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT FLOW; KENYA; MOBILE APPLICATION; MONTHLY MOVEMENT PATTERN; NET REGIONAL MOVEMENT FLOW; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; REGIONAL CONNECTIVITY; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRAVEL; URBAN AREA; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; MIGRATION;

EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; KENYA; SOCIAL MEDIA; TRAVEL;

EID: 84939207473     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0129202     Document Type: Article

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