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Neiler Medina, Arlex Sanchez and Zoran Vojinovic
Disasters triggered by natural hazards are becoming more frequent and more intense, causing damage to infrastructure and causing loss of life. One way to reduce disaster risk is by evacuating the hazardous area. However, despite the amount of literature ...
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Tanzina Afrin, Lucy G. Aragon, Zhibin Lin and Nita Yodo
Maintaining smooth traffic during disaster evacuation is a lifesaving step. Traffic resilience is often used to define the ability of a roadway during disaster evacuation to withstand and recover its functionality from disturbances in terms of traffic fl...
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Zheye Wang, Nina S. N. Lam, Mingxuan Sun, Xiao Huang, Jin Shang, Lei Zou, Yue Wu and Volodymyr V. Mihunov
Hurricane Harvey in 2017 marked an important transition where many disaster victims used social media rather than the overloaded 911 system to seek rescue. This article presents a machine-learning-based detector of rescue requests from Harvey-related Twi...
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Kejin Wang, Nina S. N. Lam, Lei Zou and Volodymyr Mihunov
Disaster resilience is the capacity of a community to ?bounce back? from disastrous events. Most studies rely on traditional data such as census data to study community resilience. With increasing use of social media, new data sources such as Twitter cou...
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Brian Tomaszewski, Amy Walker, Emily Gawlik, Casey Lane, Scott Williams, Deborah Orieta, Claudia McDaniel, Matthew Plummer, Anushka Nair, Nicolas San Jose, Nathan Terrell, Kyle Pecsok, Emma Thomley, Erin Mahoney, Emily Haberlack and David Schwartz
The need for improvement of societal disaster resilience and response efforts was evident after the destruction caused by the 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. We present a novel conceptual framework for improving disaster resilience through the combinatio...
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Partha Sarker and Henry D. Lester
The complete failure of the power systems infrastructure in Puerto Rico, following Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, severely hampered the recovery efforts of multiple critical infrastructure systems (CIS). Understanding the relationships of infrastruct...
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Su Yeon Han, Ming-Hsiang Tsou, Elijah Knaap, Sergio Rey and Guofeng Cao
Understanding human movements in the face of natural disasters is critical for disaster evacuation planning, management, and relief. Despite the clear need for such work, these studies are rare in the literature due to the lack of available data measurin...
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Jingchao Yang, Manzhu Yu, Han Qin, Mingyue Lu and Chaowei Yang
Social media data have been used to improve geographic situation awareness in the past decade. Although they have free and openly availability advantages, only a small proportion is related to situation awareness, and reliability or trustworthiness is a ...
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Mohammad Ebrahim Mohammadi, Daniel P. Watson and Richard L. Wood
Aerial data collection is well known as an efficient method to study the impact following extreme events. While datasets predominately include images for post-disaster remote sensing analyses, images alone cannot provide detailed geometric information du...
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Xiaoxuan Li, Anthony R. Cummings, Ali Rashed Alruzuq, Corene J. Matyas and Amobichukwu Chukwudi Amanambu
Tropical cyclones are incredibly destructive and deadly, inflicting immense losses to coastal properties and infrastructure. Hurricane-induced coastal floods are often the biggest threat to life and the coastal environment. A quick and accurate estimatio...
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