Rapid impact assessment in the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster is essential to provide adequate information to international organisations, local authorities, and first responders. Social media can support emergency response with evidence-based content posted by citizens and organisations during ongoing events. In the paper, we propose TriggerCit: an early flood alerting tool with a multilanguage approach focused on timeliness and geolocation. The paper focuses on assessing the reliability of the approach as a triggering system, comparing it with alternative sources for alerts, and evaluating the quality and amount of complementary information gathered. Geolocated visual evidence extracted from Twitter by TriggerCit was analysed in two case studies on floods in Thailand and Nepal in 2021.
@article{arxiv.2202.12014,
title = {TriggerCit: Early Flood Alerting using Twitter and Geolocation -- a comparison with alternative sources},
author = {Carlo Bono and Barbara Pernici and Jose Luis Fernandez-Marquez and Amudha Ravi Shankar and Mehmet Oğuz Mülâyim and Edoardo Nemni},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.12014},
year = {2022}
}
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12 pages Keywords Social Media, Disaster management, Early Alerting