DisasterMapper: A CyberGIS framework for disaster management using social media data

Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Analytics for Big Geospatial Data, BigSpatial 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1-6

  Huang, Qunying ^a   Cervone, Guido ^b   Jing, Duangyang ^a   Chang, Chaoyi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Big data; Disaster management; GIS; Social media; Social networks

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DIGITAL STORAGE; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HURRICANES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; DISTRIBUTED STORAGE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; MULTIPLE SOURCE; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA DATUM; SOCIO-ECONOMIC DATA;

BIG DATA;

EID: 84982813812     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2835185.2835189     Document Type: Conference Paper

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