Geographic situational awareness: Mining tweets for disaster preparedness, emergency response, impact, and recovery

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1549-1568

  Huang, Qunying ^a   Xiao, Yu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data mining; Disaster; Disaster coordination; Disaster relief; Social media; Text mining

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947043108     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi4031549     Document Type: Article

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