GIS

This vision paper discusses future directions and existing gaps in integrating smart city initiatives with resilience frameworks. It proposes the use of a multi-modular crowdsourced Community Resiliency Information System (CRIS) to overcome traditional ...

A greater understanding of human dynamics as they play out in both physical space and through interpersonal communication is vital for the design and development of intelligent and resilient cities. Physical context provides insight into the space-time ...

Colombia suffered civil conflict for over five decades resulting in thousands of deaths and kidnappings and millions of displaced citizens. A peace process between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) was negotiated in ...

In this study, we analyzed mobility patterns of at-risk populations affected by an extreme event using geotagged tweets to geo-target power restoration efforts. Unlike other studies that have used tweets to facilitate emergency management activities, we ...

The amount of spatial data acquired from crowdsourced platforms, mobile devices, sensors and cartographic agencies has grown exponentially over the past few years. Nearly half of the spatial data available currently are stored and processed through ...

This paper presents ADMSv2, an end-to-end data-driven system that enables real-time and historical data analytics and machine learning tasks over big, streaming, spatiotemporal data. ADMSv2 employs a unified multi-layered architecture that integrates ...

Disaster-scene images documenting the magnitude and effects of natural disasters nowadays can be easily collected through crowdsourcing aided by mobile technologies (e.g., smartphones or drones). One challenging issue that confronts the first-responders ...

City planners can encounter severe challenges during natural disasters. Flooding, for example, is considered as the number one cause of infrastructure damage across the world. Flooding can have a significant impact on personal property, commercial ...

Natural hazards have been resulting in severe damage to our cities, and flooding is one of the most disastrous in the U.S and worldwide. Therefore, it is critical to develop efficient methods for risk and damage assessments after natural hazards, such ...

Extreme events such as urban floods are dynamic in nature, i.e. they evolve with time. The spatiotemporal analysis of such disastrous events is important for understanding the resiliency of an urban system during these events. Remote Sensing (RS) data ...