Social media analytics for natural disaster management

Z Wang, X Ye - International Journal of Geographical Information …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Power outages and community health: a narrative review

JA Casey, M Fukurai, D Hernández, S Balsari… - Current environmental …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Power outages, a common and underappreciated consequence
of natural disasters, are increasing in number and severity due to climate change and aging …

Observing community resilience from space: Using nighttime lights to model economic disturbance and recovery pattern in natural disaster

Y Qiang, Q Huang, J Xu - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2020 - Elsevier
A major challenge for measuring community resilience is the lack of empirical observations
in disasters. As an effective tool to observe human activities on the earth surface, night-time …

Datafication

C Southerton - Encyclopedia of big data, 2022 - Springer
The availability of Big Data sets has led many organizations to shift their emphases from
supporting transaction-oriented data processing to supporting data-centric analytics and …

Geoinformation harvesting from social media data: A community remote sensing approach

XX Zhu, Y Wang, M Kochupillai… - … and Remote Sensing …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As unconventional sources of geoinformation, massive imagery and text messages from
open platforms and social media form a temporally quasi-seamless, spatially …

[BOG][B] Encyclopedia of big data

LA Schintler, CL McNeely - 2022 - Springer
The availability of Big Data sets has led many organizations to shift their emphases from
supporting transaction-oriented data processing to supporting data-centric analytics and …

Distributed fusion of heterogeneous remote sensing and social media data: A review and new developments

J Li, Z Liu, X Lei, L Wang - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite the wide availability of remote sensing big data from numerous different Earth
Observation (EO) instruments, the limitations in the spatial and temporal resolution of such …

Space, time, and situational awareness in natural hazards: A case study of Hurricane Sandy with social media data

Z Wang, X Ye - Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Various methods have been developed to investigate the geospatial information, temporal
component, and message content in disaster-related social media data to enrich human …

Data collection tools for post-disaster damage assessment of building and lifeline infrastructure systems

JM Lozano, I Tien - International journal of disaster risk reduction, 2023 - Elsevier
After a disaster event such as an earthquake or a hurricane, performing comprehensive and
detailed damage assessment of lifeline infrastructure is critical to effective disaster response …

Using data from connected thermostats to track large power outages in the United States

A Meier, T Ueno, M Pritoni - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
The detection of power outages is an essential activity for electric utilities. A large, national
dataset of Internet-connected thermostats was used to explore and illustrate the ability of …