Disasters are sudden and catastrophic events with fatal consequences. Time-sensitive
information collection from disaster zones is crucial for improved and data-driven disaster …

Social media have the potential to provide timely information about emergency situations
and sudden events. However, finding relevant information among the millions of posts being …

Web search engines have long served as indispensable tools for information retrieval; user
behavior and query formulation strategies have been well studied. The introduction of …

Rapid impact assessment in the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster is essential to
provide adequate information to international organisations, local authorities, and first …

Social Media provides a trove of information that, if aggregated and analysed appropriately
can provide important statistical indicators to policy makers. In some situations these …

Over the last decade, hundreds of thousands of volunteers have contributed to science by
collecting or analyzing data. This public participation in science, also known as citizen …

During disasters, social media can serve as a valuable source of real-time information about
the impacts on people and infrastructure. However, due to the lack of geographical …

Social media can serve as a valuable source of timely and valuable information about the
impacts on people and infrastructure during a disaster. However, due to the lack of …

Natural disasters have always threatened the lives of humans and other creatures. One of
the significant challenges for quickly responding to an earthquake is the need for precise …

We address the problem of estimating a photo's geographical location. Success in this
estimation enables many impactful applications, like facilitating Disaster Management …