The objective of this article is to conduct a systematic literature review that provides an
overview of the current state of research concerning methods and application for …

Since its inception, Twitter has played a major role in real-world events—especially in the
aftermath of disasters and catastrophic incidents, and has been increasingly becoming the …

The use of social media, over the past few years, has escalated enormously. Social media
has formed a platform for the availability of abundant data. Thousands of people express …

This study investigates the possibility of utilizing VGI in disaster management. Effective cross-
jurisdictional disaster management requires real-time information, which is not available …

In this paper we explore immersive street-level integration of social media content into
collaborative virtual 3D city environments on two levels: i) public, where the virtual …

During the last two decades, the role of internet users changed dramatically. While they
were mostly passive content consumers before, they are now considered proactive data …

Since social media started getting more attention from users on the Internet, social media
has been one of the most important information source in the world. Especially, with the …

The social functionality of places (eg school, restaurant) partly determines human behaviors
and reflects a region's functional configuration. Semantic descriptions of places are thus …

Since the vision of a Digital Earth (DE) was introduced in 1998, geo-browsers seem to have
nearly fulfilled this vision. Virtual reality (VR) for visualizing the DE provides an immersive …

Placeness or the “sense of a place” plays a vital role in urban design and planning.
Research on placeness in the past has been conducted via conventional methods like …