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 …

An overview of multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) application in managing water-related disaster events: analyzing 20 years of literature for flood and drought …

MF Abdullah, S Siraj, RE Hodgett - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper provides an overview of multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) applications in
managing water-related disasters (WRD). Although MCDA has been widely used in …

Volunteered geographic information research in the first decade: a narrative review of selected journal articles in GIScience

Y Yan, CC Feng, W Huang, H Fan… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
More than 10 years have passed since the coining of the term volunteered geographic
information (VGI) in 2007. This article presents the results of a review of the literature …

[HTML][HTML] Citizen observations contributing to flood modelling: Opportunities and challenges

TH Assumpção, I Popescu, A Jonoski… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2018 - hess.copernicus.org
Citizen contributions to science have been successfully implemented in many fields, and
water resources is one of them. Through citizens, it is possible to collect data and obtain a …

Exploring the integration of local and scientific knowledge in early warning systems for disaster risk reduction: a review

TDG Hermans, R Šakić Trogrlić… - Natural Hazards, 2022 - Springer
The occurrence and intensity of some natural hazards (eg hydro-meteorological) increase
due to climate change, with growing exposure and socio-economic vulnerability, leading to …

Extraction and analysis of natural disaster-related VGI from social media: review, opportunities and challenges

Y Feng, X Huang, M Sester - International Journal of Geographical …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The idea of 'citizen as sensors' has gradually become a reality over the past decade. Today,
Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) from citizens is highly involved in acquiring …

Mining location from social media: A systematic review

K Stock - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2018 - Elsevier
During the last ten years, a large body of research extracting and analysing geographic data
from social media has developed. We analyse 690 papers across 20 social media platforms …

Volunteered geographic information use in crisis, emergency and disaster management: a scoping review and a web atlas

K Tzavella, A Skopeliti, A Fekete - Geo-Spatial Information Science, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Nowadays, an increasing number of crises worldwide, triggered by climate extremes, natural
and human-made hazards, the coronavirus pandemic, and more, pose a high pressure on …

Disaster damage assessment based on fine-grained topics in social media

M Dou, Y Wang, Y Gu, S Dong, M Qiao… - Computers & Geosciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Social media data have been widely used to enrich human-centric information for situational
awareness and disaster assessment. Owing to the granularity of topics detected from …

The role of crowdsourcing and social media in crisis mapping: a case study of a wildfire reaching Croatian City of Split

M Tavra, I Racetin, J Peroš - Geoenvironmental Disasters, 2021 - Springer
As climate change continues, wildfire outbreaks are becoming more frequent and more
difficult to control. In mid-July 2017, a forest fire spread from the forests to the city of Split in …