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E2mC: Improving Emergency Management Service Practice through Social Media and Crowdsourcing Analysis in Near Real Time
- Source :
- Sensors, Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), Sensors, Vol 17, Iss 12, p 2766 (2017)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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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 4872 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. (VLID)2350401
- Subjects :
- Service (systems architecture)
Emergency Medical Services
Geospatial analysis
architecture
Time Factors
Civil defense
Computer science
social media
0211 other engineering and technologies
02 engineering and technology
crowdsourcing
geospatial analysis
machine learning
image classification
geolocation
3D reconstruction
disaster management
near real time
computer.software_genre
Crowdsourcing
lcsh:Chemical technology
Biochemistry
Analytical Chemistry
Disasters
Computer Systems
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Emergency medical services
Social media
lcsh:TP1-1185
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Instrumentation
021101 geological & geomatics engineering
Emergency management
Event (computing)
business.industry
Concept Paper
Data science
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Systems architecture
020201 artificial intelligence & image processing
business
computer
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14248220
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sensors
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a92e1ea2c8f1440d631e3ad556c83852
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/s17122766