Assessing the utility of social media as a data source for flood risk management using a real-time modelling framework

Journal of Flood Risk Management

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 370-380

  Smith, L ^a   Liang, Q ^a   James, P ^a   Lin, W ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flood modelling; flood risk management; incident management; Newcastle upon Tyne; social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 85028405958     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1753318X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jfr3.12154     Document Type: Article

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