A Citizen-Sensing-Based Digital Service for the Analysis of On-Site Post-Earthquake Messages

• Published in: ISPRS international journal of geo-information Vol. 8; no. 3; p. 136
• Main Authors: Di Felice, Paolino, Iessi, Michele
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 08.03.2019
• Subjects: Applications programs; asset; Data collection; Disaster management; Disasters; earthquake; Earthquakes; Infrastructure; Messages; Mobile computing; participatory sensing; Query languages; ranking; Seismic activity; Smartphones; Social networks; Storage; Survival; Twitter

The effectiveness of disaster response depends on the correctness and timeliness of data regarding the location and the impact of the event. These two issues are critical when the data come from citizens’ tweets, since the automatic classification of disaster-related tweets suffers from many shortco...