Natural hazards have the potential to cause catastrophic damage and significant
socioeconomic loss. The actual damage and loss observed in the recent decades has …

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

Abstract Discriminative Correlation Filters (DCF) are efficient in visual tracking but suffer from
unwanted boundary effects. Spatially Regularized DCF (SRDCF) has been suggested to …

With the increasing trend of global warming, the frequent occurrences of natural disasters
have brought serious challenges to the sustainable development of the society. Therefore …

Social media platforms provide active communication channels during mass convergence
and emergency events such as disasters caused by natural hazards. As a result, first …

Social media is an invaluable source of time-critical information during a crisis. However,
emergency response and humanitarian relief organizations that would like to use this …

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 …

Indonesia lies at the region where Indo-Australian, Eurasian, Pacific and Philippines global
tectonic plates meet. In the last 30 years, Indonesia has experienced catastrophic …

Early event detection and response can significantly reduce the societal impact of floods.
Currently, early warning systems rely on gauges, radar data, models and informal local …