Emergency Informatics: Using Computing to Improve Disaster Management

Computer

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 19-27

  Murphy, Robin R ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

autonomous vehicles; computer vision; data analysis; data mining; decision support; disaster management; emergency informatics; emergency support functions; ESFs; machine learning; project management; robotics; social media; UAVs; unmanned aerial vehicles

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER VISION; DATA MINING; DATA REDUCTION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DISASTER PREVENTION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; ROBOTICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); VEHICLES;

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; DECISION SUPPORTS; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; ESFS; INFORMATICS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SUPPORT FUNCTIONS;

DISASTERS;

EID: 84969929982     PISSN: 00189162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MC.2016.135     Document Type: Article

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