Tag: flood

Combining Social Media and Authoritative Data towards identifying useful Information for Disaster Management

A Study on the Twitter usage in the River Elbe Flood of June 2013 In recent years, social media emerged as a potential resource to improve the management of crisis situations such as disasters triggered by natural hazards. Although there is a growing research body concerned with the analysis of the usage of social media…

2015-05-15
New project started: OpenFloodRiskMap

Flood emergency planning is a challenging task for many municipalities throughout the world, and particularly in Europe. Not only because there is no common methodology on how to detect the critical infrastructure that must be taking into account in emergency plans, but as well because of the fact that the changing flood-risk situation requires constant…

2014-10-07

Combining Social Media and Authoritative Data towards identifying useful Information for Disaster Management