Triangulating Social Multimedia Content for Event Localization using Flickr and Twitter

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 694-715

  Panteras, George ^a   Wise, Sarah ^a   Lu, Xu ^a   Croitoru, Arie ^a   Crooks, Andrew ^a   Stefanidis, Anthony ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EVENT LOCALIZATIONS; GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION; HETEROGENEOUS SOURCES; MEDIA CONTENT; MULTIMEDIA CONTENTS; MULTIPLE VIEWS; NATURAL DISASTERS; SOCIAL MEDIA; TWO-STEP PROCESS; VIEWSHED ANALYSIS;

DISASTERS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGERY; MULTIMEDIA; NATURAL DISASTER; TRIANGULATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84943256011     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tgis.12122     Document Type: Article

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