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A Volunteered Geographic Information Framework to Enable Bottom-Up Disaster Management Platforms
2015
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Recent disasters, such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, have drawn attention to the potential role of citizens as active information producers. By using location-aware devices such as smartphones to collect geographic information in the form of geo-tagged text, photos, or videos, and sharing this information through online social media, such as Twitter, citizens create Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). To effectively use this information for disaster management, we developed a VGI
doi:10.3390/ijgi4031389
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