Undoubtedly, the age of big data has opened new options for natural disaster management,
primarily because of the varied possibilities it provides in visualizing, analyzing, and …

A voluminous and complex amount of information—'big data'—from social media such as
Twitter and Flickr is now ubiquitous and of increasing interest to researchers studying …

This paper aims to engage with the ongoing debates on the role of planning in future smart
cities, to make a case for a reconceptualization of the technocentric notion of the smart city …

Urbanization is one of the most impactful human activities across the world today affecting
the quality of urban life and its sustainable development. Urbanization in Africa is occurring …

Twitter is among the fastest‐growing microblogging and online social networking services.
Messages posted on Twitter (tweets) have been reporting everything from daily life stories to …

Identifying the structure of a polycentric city is vital to various studies, such as urban sprawl
and population movement dynamics. This paper presents an efficient and reliable method …

Characterized by a certain focus on the heavily discussed topic of image fusion in its
beginnings, sensor data fusion has played a significant role in the remote sensing research …

Citizens are increasingly becoming an important source of geographic information,
sometimes entering domains that had until recently been the exclusive realm of authoritative …

Social media feeds are rapidly emerging as a novel avenue for the contribution and
dissemination of information that is often geographic. Their content often includes references …

In recent years, online social networking has revolutionized interpersonal communication.
The newer research on language analysis in social media has been increasingly focusing …