Near real-time global disaster impact analysis

Information Systems for Emergency Management

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 302-326

  De Groeve, Tom ^a   Annunziato, Alessandro ^a   Kugler, Zsofia ^a   Vernaccini, Luca ^a  

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Author keywords

Disaster management; Humanitarian aid; Impact analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85076575534     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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