Geospatial Intelligence

#Earthquake: Twitter as a Distributed Sensor System

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 […]

Read More

Demarcating New Boundaries: Mapping Virtual Polycentric Communities through Social Media Content

The proliferation of social media has led to the emergence of a new type of geospatial information that defies the conventions of authoritative or volunteered geographic information, yet can be harvested to reveal unique and dynamic information about people and their activities.

Links