Reviews of geospatial information technology and collaborative data delivery for disaster risk management

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1936-1964

  Miyazaki, Hiroyuki ^a   Nagai, Masahiko ^a,b   Shibasaki, Ryosuke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Data delivery; Disaster risk management; Earth observation; Geospatial information technology; Ground based observation; Mobile phone

Indexed keywords

EID: 84952801800     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi4041936     Document Type: Review

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