Probabilistic flood extent estimates from social media flood observations

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 735-747

  Brouwer, Tom ^a,b   Eilander, Dirk ^a   Van Loenen, Arnejan ^a   Booij, Martijn J ^b   Wijnberg, Kathelijne M ^b   Verkade, Jan S ^a   Wagemaker, Jurjen ^c  

^a DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c FloodTags ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOOD; FLOODING; PROBABILITY; SOCIAL MEDIA;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; YORK [ENGLAND];

EID: 85019873175     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-17-735-2017     Document Type: Article

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