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

Recent years have witnessed an explosion of extensive geolocated datasets related to
human movement, enabling scientists to quantitatively study individual and collective …

With the ubiquity of advanced web technologies and location-sensing hand held devices,
citizens regardless of their knowledge or expertise, are able to produce spatial information …

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

The importance of timely, accurate and effective use of available information is essential to
the proper management of emergency situations. In recent years, emerging technologies …

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 …

Locations, eg, countries, states, cities, and point-of-interests, are central to news, emergency
events, and people's daily lives. Automatic identification of locations associated with or …

The use of social media platforms such as Twitter significantly increases during natural
hazards. With the emergence of several social media platforms over the past decade, many …

Visual analytics systems combine machine learning or other analytic techniques with
interactive data visualization to promote sensemaking and analytical reasoning. It is through …