Predicting floods with Flickr tags

Increasingly, user generated content (UGC) in social media postings and their associated metadata such as time and location stamps are being used to provide useful operational information during natural hazard events such as hurricanes, storms and floods. The main advantage of these new sources of d...

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Published in:PloS one 2017-02, Vol.12 (2), p.e0172870
Main Authors: Tkachenko, Nataliya, Jarvis, Stephen, Procter, Rob
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Computer and Information Sciences
Cyclonic Storms
Data Collection
Digital media
Disaster Planning
Disasters
Earth Sciences
Earthquakes
Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Environmental aspects
Environmental hazards
Environmental Monitoring - methods
Flood predictions
Flooding
Floods
Geography
Humans
Hurricanes
Hydrologic data
Internet
Management
Metadata
Natural disasters
Nowcasting
Outbreaks
Photography
Physical Sciences
Research and Analysis Methods
Risk Assessment - methods
Sensors
Social Media
Social networks
Social Sciences
Tags
User generated content
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