Twitter as a tool for the management and analysis of emergency situations: A systematic literature review

M Martínez-Rojas, M del Carmen Pardo-Ferreira… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
The importance of timely, accurate and effective use of available information is essential to
the proper management of emergency situations. In recent years, emerging technologies …

Social media analytics for natural disaster management

Z Wang, X Ye - International Journal of Geographical Information …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Social media analytics has become prominent in natural disaster management. In spite of a
large variety of metadata fields in social media data, four dimensions (ie space, time, content …

Fifteen years of social media in emergencies: a retrospective review and future directions for crisis informatics

C Reuter, MA Kaufhold - Journal of contingencies and crisis …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Social media has been established in many larger emergencies and crises. This process
has not started just a few years ago, but already 15 years ago in 2001 after the terrorist …

Big data analytics for disaster response and recovery through sentiment analysis

JR Ragini, PMR Anand, V Bhaskar - International Journal of Information …, 2018 - Elsevier
Big data created by social media and mobile networks provide an exceptional opportunity to
mine valuable insights from them. This information is harnessed by business entities to …

Social media in crisis management: An evaluation and analysis of crisis informatics research

C Reuter, AL Hughes, MA Kaufhold - International Journal of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the use of social media in emergency and crisis events
has greatly increased and many studies have concentrated on the use of ICT and social …

Combining machine-learning topic models and spatiotemporal analysis of social media data for disaster footprint and damage assessment

B Resch, F Usländer, C Havas - Cartography and geographic …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Current disaster management procedures to cope with human and economic losses and to
manage a disaster's aftermath suffer from a number of shortcomings like high temporal lags …

A novel approach to leveraging social media for rapid flood mapping: a case study of the 2015 South Carolina floods

Z Li, C Wang, CT Emrich, D Guo - Cartography and Geographic …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Rapid flood mapping is critical for local authorities and emergency responders to identify
areas in need of immediate attention. However, traditional data collection practices such as …

Disaster early warning and damage assessment analysis using social media data and geo-location information

D Wu, Y Cui - Decision support systems, 2018 - Elsevier
Societies are confronted with destructive natural disasters of increasing frequency. Social
networks are playing an increasingly important role as early warning systems, aiding with …

Crowdsourcing methods for data collection in geophysics: State of the art, issues, and future directions

F Zheng, R Tao, HR Maier, L See, D Savic… - Reviews of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Data are essential in all areas of geophysics. They are used to better understand and
manage systems, either directly or via models. Given the complexity and spatiotemporal …

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 …