Mining social media data for rapid damage assessment during Hurricane Matthew: Feasibility study

F Yuan, R Liu - Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
Previous research has employed social media index such as disaster-related ratio (DIRR) or
damage-related ratio (DARR) and sentiment to estimate the damages during disasters …

Social media information sharing for natural disaster response

ZS Dong, L Meng, L Christenson, L Fulton - Natural hazards, 2021 - Springer
Social media has become an essential channel for posting disaster-related information,
which provides governments and relief agencies real-time data for better disaster …

Leveraging multimodal social media data for rapid disaster damage assessment

H Hao, Y Wang - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2020 - Elsevier
During disaster response and recovery stages, stakeholders including governmental
agencies collect disaster's impact information to inform disaster relief, resource allocation …

Use of social media data to explore crisis informatics: Study of 2013 Oklahoma tornado

SV Ukkusuri, X Zhan, AM Sadri… - Transportation Research …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Microblogs posted to Twitter after the tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, on May 20, 2013, were
analyzed in this study. The potential of social media data was explored for the extraction of …

Semiautomated social media analytics for sensing societal impacts due to community disruptions during disasters

C Zhang, W Yao, Y Yang, R Huang… - Computer‐Aided Civil …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the societal impacts caused by community disruptions (eg, power outages
and road closures), particularly during the response stage, with timeliness and sufficient …

Rapid assessment of disaster impacts on highways using social media

Y Chen, Q Wang, W Ji - Journal of Management in Engineering, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
A timely and reliable assessment of disaster impacts on highways is desired for executing
evacuations, providing emergency services, and planning relief and recovery activities in …

Understanding the evolutions of public responses using social media: Hurricane Matthew case study

F Yuan, M Li, R Liu - International journal of disaster risk reduction, 2020 - Elsevier
Understanding timely evolutions of public responses during disasters can help crisis
response managers design and implement response strategies. Recent studies mainly …

Feasibility study of using crowdsourcing to identify critical affected areas for rapid damage assessment: Hurricane Matthew case study

F Yuan, R Liu - International journal of disaster risk reduction, 2018 - Elsevier
The rapid damage assessment plays a critical role in crisis management. Collection of timely
information for rapid damage assessment is particularly challenging during natural …

A multilabel classification approach to identify hurricane‐induced infrastructure disruptions using social media data

KC Roy, S Hasan, P Mozumder - Computer‐Aided Civil and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Rapid identification of infrastructure disruptions during a disaster plays an important role in
restoration and recovery operations. Due to the limitations of using physical sensing …

Understanding social media data for disaster management

Y Xiao, Q Huang, K Wu - Natural hazards, 2015 - Springer
Social media data are increasingly being used in disaster management for information
dissemination, establishment of situational awareness of the “big picture” of the disaster …