Social media data are transforming sustainability science. However, challenges from
restrictions in data accessibility and ethical concerns regarding potential data misuse have …

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 …

The analysis of data from social media and social networking sites may be instrumental in
achieving a better understanding of human-environment interactions and in shaping future …

Social media offers participatory and collaborative structure and collective knowledge
building capacity to the public information and warning approaches. Therefore, the author …

Social media platforms are playing increasingly critical roles in disaster response and
rescue operations. During emergencies, users can post rescue requests along with their …

Rapid response to natural hazards, such as floods, is essential to mitigate loss of life and the
reduction of suffering. For emergency response teams, access to timely and accurate data is …

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 …

The benefits of a digital twin city have been assessed based on real-time data collected from
preinstalled Internet of Things (IoT) sensors (eg, traffic, energy use, air pollution, water …

Hyper-resolution datasets for urban flooding are rare. This problem prevents detailed
flooding risk analysis, urban flooding control, and the validation of hyper-resolution …

Early event detection and response can significantly reduce the societal impact of floods.
Currently, early warning systems rely on gauges, radar data, models and informal local …