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 …

Digital Twins (DT) is the real-time virtual representation of systems, communities, cities, or
even human beings with the substantial potential to revolutionize post-disaster risk …

Rapid access to situation-sensitive data through social media networks creates new
opportunities to address a number of real-world problems. Damage assessment during …

In the era of big data, could popularized social media platforms assist with urban damage
monitoring and assessment and aid disaster rescue? Before, during, and after such …

The analysis of natural disaster-related multimedia content got great attention in recent
years. Being one of the most important sources of information, social media have been …

Much progress has been made in the field of sentiment analysis in the past years.
Researchers relied on textual data for this task, while only recently they have started …

Social media has recently become a digital lifeline used to relay information and locate
survivors in disaster situations. Currently, officials and volunteers scour social media for any …

The extensive use of social media platforms, especially during disasters, creates unique
opportunities for humanitarian organizations to gain situational awareness as disaster …

The rapid damage assessment plays a critical role in crisis management. Collection of timely
information for rapid damage assessment is particularly challenging during natural …