Urban Geography studies forms, social fabrics, and economic structures of cities from a
geographic perspective. Catalysed by the increasingly abundant spatial big data, Urban …

The recent development of big data analytics (BDA) and the Internet of Things (IoT)
technologies create a huge opportunity for both disaster management systems and disaster …

Social media platforms such as Twitter provide convenient ways to share and consume
important information during disasters and emergencies. Information from bystanders and …

When a disaster occurs, government agencies are responsible for managing the response
and recovery efforts of the impacted communities and infrastructure. Crowdsourcing and …

Social media research during natural disasters has been presented as a tool to guide
response and relief efforts in the disciplines of geography and computer sciences. This …

Natural disasters are events that are difficult to avoid. There are several ways of reducing the
risks of natural disasters. One of them is implementing disaster reduction programs. There …

Due to the tremendous increment of data on the web, extracting the most important data as a
conceptual brief would be valuable for certain users. Therefore, there is a massive …

With the increasing frequency of natural disasters becoming, it is very important to classify
and identify disasters. We propose a lightweight disaster classification model, which has …

In the last 10, years the Twitter social network has become a robust messaging platform. To
date, Twitter has more than 500 million users worldwide. A given tweet can contain the …

The increasing occurrence of disasters worldwide has motivated researchers to
continuously evaluate potential technological advances to support disaster management …