Implementing a real-time Twitter-based system for resource dispatch in disaster management

GeoJournal

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 863-873

  Chen, Xiannian ^a   Elmes, Gregory ^a   Ye, Xinyue ^b   Chang, Jinhua ^c  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ZHONGNAN UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND LAW   (China)

Author keywords

Disaster management; Distributed geodatabase; Geo tagged tweets; Tweets; Volunteered geographic information; Web GIS

Indexed keywords

DISASTER PREVENTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; GEO-TAGGED TWEETS; GEODATABASE; TWEETS; VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; WEB-GIS;

DISASTERS;

DATABASE; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; DISASTER RELIEF; GIS; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; REAL TIME; SOCIAL MEDIA; VOLUNTARY APPROACH;

EID: 84981284192     PISSN: 03432521     EISSN: 15729893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10708-016-9745-8     Document Type: Article

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