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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2017

E2mC: Improving Emergency Management Service Practice through Social Media and Crowdsourcing Analysis in Near Real Time.

Clemens Havas, Bernd Resch, Chiara Francalanci, Barbara Pernici, Gabriele Scalia, Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez, Tim Van Achte, Gunter Zeug, Maria Rosa Rosy Mondardini, Domenico Grandoni and 4 more

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 79 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 7 institutions in 6 countries.

Clemens HavasDepartment of Geoinformatics-Z_GIS, University of Salzburg, Schillerstrasse 30, 5020 Salzburg, Austria. clemensrudolf.havas@sbg.ac.at.
Bernd ReschDepartment of Geoinformatics-Z_GIS, University of Salzburg, Schillerstrasse 30, 5020 Salzburg, Austria. bernd.resch@sbg.ac.at.
Chiara FrancalanciDepartment of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32, 20131 Milano, Italy. chiara.francalanci@polimi.it.
Barbara PerniciDepartment of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32, 20131 Milano, Italy. barbara.pernici@polimi.it.
Gabriele ScaliaDepartment of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32, 20131 Milano, Italy. gabriele.scalia@polimi.it.
Jose Luis Fernandez-MarquezCitizen Cyberlab, Centre Universitaire d'Informatique (CUI), University of Geneva, route de Drize CH-1227 Carouge, Switzerland. joseluis.fernandez@unige.ch.
Tim Van AchtePM Risk Crisis Change, K. M. Hendrikaplein 57, 9000 Ghent, Belgium. tim@pm.be.
Gunter ZeugTerranea, Bahnhofstr. 120, 82269 Geltendorf, Germany. gunter.zeug@terranea.de.
Maria Rosa Rosy MondardiniCitizen Cyberlab, Centre Universitaire d'Informatique (CUI), University of Geneva, route de Drize CH-1227 Carouge, Switzerland. rosy.mondardini@unige.ch.
Domenico Grandonie-GEOS S.p.A, Via Tiburtina 965, 00156, Rome, Italy. domenico.grandoni@e-geos.it.
Birgit KirschFraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS, Schloss Birlinghoven, 53757 Sankt Augustin, Germany. birgit.kirsch@iais.fraunhofer.de.
Milan KalasKAJO s. r. o., Sladkovicova 228/8, 01401 Bytca, Slovakia. milan.kalas@kajoservices.com.
Valerio LoriniKAJO s. r. o., Sladkovicova 228/8, 01401 Bytca, Slovakia. valerio.lorini@kajoservices.com.
Stefan RüpingFraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems IAIS, Schloss Birlinghoven, 53757 Sankt Augustin, Germany. stefan.rueping@iais.fraunhofer.de.
Politecnico di Milano · ITFraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems · DEUniversity of Geneva · CHe GEOS (Italy) · ITHarvard University · USInternational Crisis Group · BEUniversity of Salzburg · AT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the first hours of a disaster, up-to-date information about the area of interest is crucial for effective disaster management. However, due to the delay induced by collecting and analysing satellite imagery, disaster management systems like the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (EMS) are currently not able to provide information products until up to 48-72 h after a disaster event has occurred. While satellite imagery is still a valuable source for disaster management, information products can be improved through complementing them with user-generated data like social media posts or crowdsourced data. The advantage of these new kinds of data is that they are continuously produced in a timely fashion because users actively participate throughout an event and share related information. The research project Evolution of Emergency Copernicus services (E2mC) aims to integrate these novel data into a new EMS service component called Witness, which is presented in this paper. Like this, the timeliness and accuracy of geospatial information products provided to civil protection authorities can be improved through leveraging user-generated data. This paper sketches the developed system architecture, describes applicable scenarios and presents several preliminary case studies, providing evidence that the scientific and operational goals have been achieved.

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CrowdsourcingComputer SystemsDisastersEmergency Medical ServicesSocial MediaTime Factors3D reconstructionarchitecturecrowdsourcingdisaster managementgeolocationgeospatial analysisimage classificationmachine learningnear real timesocial media

Identifiers

PMID29186080
PMCPMC5751655
OpenAlexW2774938489

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