Using social media to mine and analyze public sentiment during a disaster: A case study of the 2018 Shouguang city flood in China

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2019, Pages

  Han, Xuehua ^a,b,c   Wang, Juanle ^a,c,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c The International Knowledge Centre for Engineering Sciences and Technology   (China)

^d NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Disaster risk reduction; Flood; Public sentiment; Social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 85066441725     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi8040185     Document Type: Review

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