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 …

This chapter surveys the rapid rise of social media in a range of disaster experiences,
reviewing topics of citizen reporting, community-oriented computing, distributed problem …

Social media applications have proven to be a dependable communication channel even
when traditional methods fail. Their application to emergency management offers new …

Social media platforms and mobile phone data are commonly mined to produce accounts of
how people are responding in the aftermath of crisis events. Yet social and mobile datasets …

The immediacy of locational information requirements and importance of data currency for
natural disaster events highlights the value of volunteered geographic information (VGI) in …

The application of crowdsourced social media data in flood map** and other disaster
management initiatives is a burgeoning field of research, but not one that is without …

Climate change, air quality, and environmental degradation are important societal
challenges for the Twenty-first Century. These challenges require an intelligent response …

Abstract Virtual Operations Support Teams (VOSTs) are a novel form of organized
intelligence-gathering effort that has recently appeared in the emergency management and …

We live in a time when anyone can change from a passive bystander to an active
communicator during a crisis. This makes user-generated content a potentially valuable …

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 …