Remote sensing is a powerful technology for Earth observation (EO), and it plays an
essential role in many applications, including environmental monitoring, precision …

Urban and regional research is crucial for many applications such as public participation,
land use, disaster management, and environmental monitoring, but it is a time-consuming …

As unconventional sources of geoinformation, massive imagery and text messages from
open platforms and social media form a temporally quasi-seamless, spatially …

The rapid development of social media data and the associated growth in volume, velocity,
and variety has fostered the idea of using these data to guide traditional remote sensing …

Traditional data collection methods such as remote sensing and field surveying often fail to
offer timely information during or immediately following disaster events. Social sensing …

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 …

Social media texts spontaneously produced and uploaded by the public contain a wealth of
disaster information. As a supplementary data source for remote sensing, they have played …

Situational awareness tries to grasp the important events and circumstances in the physical
world through sensing, communication, and reasoning. Tracking the evolution of changing …

Environmental hazards pose a significant threat to urban areas due to their potential
catastrophic consequences affecting people, property and the environment. Remote sensing …

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 …