Tracing the Spatial-temporal evolution of Events based on Social media data

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Zhou, Xiaolu ^a   Xu, Chen ^b  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic information systems; Social media data; Space time event; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85026661495     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi6030088     Document Type: Article

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