Crowdsourcing tools for disaster management
Recent advances on information technologies and communica-tions, coupled with the advent of the social media applications have fuelled a new landscape of emergency and disaster response systems by enabling affect-ed citizens to generate georeferenced real time information on critical events. The ide...
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| Tipo de recurso: | capítulo de libro |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2014 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:158789 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/158789 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1007/978-3-662-45960-7_19 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Emergency management Disaster management Crowdsourcing Crowdsensing Micro-tasking Platforms Mobile apps |
| Sumario: | Recent advances on information technologies and communica-tions, coupled with the advent of the social media applications have fuelled a new landscape of emergency and disaster response systems by enabling affect-ed citizens to generate georeferenced real time information on critical events. The identification and analysis of such events is not straightforward and the ap-plication of crowdsourcing methods or automatic tools is needed for that pur-pose. Whereas crowdsourcing makes emphasis on the resources of people to produce, aggregate, or filter original data, automatic tools make use of infor-mation retrieval techniques to analyze publicly available information. This pa-per reviews a set of online tools and platforms implemented in recent years which are currently being applied in the area of emergency management and proposes a taxonomy for its categorization. |
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