Jun 01 2012
A paper entitled “Harvesting ambient geospatial information from social media feeds” is now available in GeoJournal. The abstract for the paper reads as follows: “Social media generated from many individuals is playing a greater role in our daily lives and provides a unique opportunity to gain valuable insight on information flow and social networking within […]
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Jun 01 2012
We have just finished a paper entitled ‘Social Media and the Emergence of Open-Source Geospatial Intelligence’ for Socio-Cultural Dynamics and Global Security. For those interested below is the abstract: The emergence of social media has provided the public with an effective and irrepressible real-time mechanism to broadcast information. The great popularity of platforms such as […]
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Jun 01 2012
Our work on using social media continues to develop and we have recently had a paper accepted in Transactions in GIS, entitled “#Earthquake: Twitter as a Distributed Sensor System“. Below we present our abstract and some of the results. Social media feeds are rapidly emerging as a novel avenue for the contribution and dissemination of […]
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