Using nightlight remote sensing imagery and twitter data to study power outages

Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on the Use of GIS in Emergency Management, EM-GIS 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Hultquist, Carolynne ^a   Simpson, Mark ^a   Cervone, Guido ^a   Huang, Qunying ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster management; Hurricane Sandy; Power outages; Remote sensing; Social media

Indexed keywords

CIVIL DEFENSE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; HURRICANES; INFORMATION FILTERING; REMOTE SENSING; RISK MANAGEMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITES; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TEXT PROCESSING;

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INFORMATION SEARCH; POWER OUTAGE; REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL;

OUTAGES;

EID: 84979783991     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2835596.2835601     Document Type: Conference Paper

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