Spatial, temporal, and content analysis of Twitter for wildfire hazards

Natural Hazards

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 523-540

  Wang, Zheye ^a   Ye, Xinyue ^a   Tsou, Ming Hsiang ^b  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster; Emergency management; San Diego; Social media; Twitter; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; NATURAL HAZARD; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WILDFIRE;

CALIFORNIA; SAN DIEGO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84965066812     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: 15730840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-016-2329-6     Document Type: Article

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