Harvesting Social Media for Generation of Near Real-time Flood Maps

Procedia Engineering

Volumn 154, Issue , 2016, Pages 176-183

  Eilander, Dirk ^a   Trambauer, Patricia ^a   Wagemaker, Jurjen ^b   Van Loenen, Arnejan ^a  

^a DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^b Floodtags ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Big Data; Disaster Management; Disaster Response; Floods; Near Real Time; Social Media

Indexed keywords

BIG DATA; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; HYBRID INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CURRENT SITUATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MAP; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; DISASTER RESPONSE; NEAR-REAL TIME; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL MEDIA; WISDOM OF THE CROWDS;

FLOODS;

EID: 84997765365     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18777058     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2016.07.441     Document Type: Conference Paper

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