Articles | Volume 21, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-1431-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-21-1431-2021
Review article
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06 May 2021
Review article |  | 06 May 2021

Opportunities and risks of disaster data from social media: a systematic review of incident information

Matti Wiegmann, Jens Kersten, Hansi Senaratne, Martin Potthast, Friederike Klan, and Benno Stein

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In this paper, we study when social media is an adequate source to find metadata about incidents that cannot be acquired by traditional means. We identify six major use cases: impact assessment and verification of model predictions, narrative generation, recruiting citizen volunteers, supporting weakly institutionalized areas, narrowing surveillance areas, and reporting triggers for periodical surveillance.
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