Rapid assessment of building collapse based on sequential dynamic fusion of multi-source disaster information from news media

• Published in: International journal of disaster risk reduction Vol. 51; p. 101910
• Main Authors: Yan, Zezheng, Zhao, Hanping, Wang, Fangping, Zhang, Xiaoxue, Cai, Sida, Mei, Xiaowen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.12.2020
• Subjects: Buildings collapse assessment; Cloud model; Dempster–Shafer theory; Disaster information fusion; News media; Dempster–Shafer theory; Buildings collapse assessment; News media; Cloud model; Disaster information fusion

News media provides time and data guarantee for rapid post-disaster assessment. However, disaster information from news media often suffers from semantic ambiguity and conflicting content, and disaster information changes over time. These characteristics of disaster information seriously affect its...