Urban pluvial flooding (UPF) resulting from localized, intense, rainfall-generated ponding
and overland flow causes a range of socio-environmental impacts. UPF is driven by a …

Pluvial flooding can have devastating effects, both in terms of loss of life and damage.
Predicting pluvial floods is difficult and many cities do not have a hydrodynamic model or an …

The Social Internet of Things (SIoT) paradigm incorporates social networking concepts with
the Internet of Things (IoT) solutions to support novel services. The massive amount of data …

Social airborne sensing (SAS) is taking shape as a new integrated sensing paradigm that
melds the human wisdom derived from social data platforms (eg, Twitter, Facebook) with the …

Social networks are inevitable parts of our daily life, where an unprecedented amount of
complex data corresponding to a diverse range of applications are generated. As such, it is …

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm represents networks of objects that, without
requiring human action, sense and interact with the environment, collect data, and transmit …

With the rapid development of Internet technologies, the public can participate in the
information communication of emergency events more conveniently and quickly. Once an …

Microblogging has become a crucial channel for e-governments to interact with the public
and has been evolving as a powerful and promising tool to address emergency …

In order to better cope with water environmental problems as part of the whole world's
climate change, much data are needed. As citizens are more concerned about the safety of …

High spatial heterogeneous behavior of urban floods offers challenges in its monitoring,
modeling and assessment, and lack of flood database further increases complexity. This …