Rapid and near real-time assessments of population displacement using mobile phone data following disasters: The 2015 Nepal earthquake

PLoS Currents

Volumn 8, Issue Disasters, 2016, Pages

  Wilson, Robin ^a,b   Erbach Schoenberg, Elisabeth Zu ^a,b   Albert, Maximilian ^a,b   Power, Daniel ^a,b   Tudge, Simon ^a,b   Gonzalez, Miguel ^a,b   Guthrie, Sam ^a,b   Chamberlain, Heather ^a,b   Brooks, Christopher ^a,b   Hughes, Christopher ^a,b,c   Pitonakova, Lenka ^a,b   Buckee, Caroline ^a,d   Lu, Xin ^a,e   Wetter, Erik ^a   Tatem, Andrew ^a,b   Bengtsson, Linus ^a  

^a FLOWMINDER FOUNDATION   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; FLOWMINDER ANALYSES; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; MIGRATION; MOBILE PHONE; NEPAL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POPULATION DISPLACEMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREPROCESSING; REAL TIME TRACKING SYSTEM; SCALING FACTOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRANSITION MATRIX;

EID: 84998912785     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21573999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/currents.dis.d073fbece328e4c39087bc086d694b5c     Document Type: Article

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