Social media offers participatory and collaborative structure and collective knowledge
building capacity to the public information and warning approaches. Therefore, the author …

Social media data are transforming sustainability science. However, challenges from
restrictions in data accessibility and ethical concerns regarding potential data misuse have …

Understanding dynamic human mobility changes and spatial interaction patterns at different
geographic scales is crucial for assessing the impacts of non-pharmaceutical interventions …

Social media messages posted by people during natural disasters often contain important
location descriptions, such as the locations of victims. Recent research has shown that many …

The era of big data and analytics is opening up new possibilities for disaster management
(DM). Due to its ability to visualize, analyze and predict disasters, big data is changing the …

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 …

Timely understanding of affected areas during disasters is essential for the implementation
of emergency response activities. As one of the low-cost and information-rich volunteer …

A vast amount of location information exists in unstructured texts, such as social media
posts, news stories, scientific articles, web pages, travel blogs, and historical archives …

People start posting tweets containing texts, images, and videos as soon as a disaster hits
an area. The analysis of these disaster-related tweet texts, images, and videos can help …

Social media is a platform to express one's view in real time. This real time nature of social
media makes it an attractive tool for disaster management, as both victims and officials can …