The role of crowdsourcing and social media in crisis mapping: a case study of a wildfire reaching Croatian City of Split
Abstract As climate change continues, wildfire outbreaks are becoming more frequent and more difficult to control. In mid-July 2017, a forest fire spread from the forests to the city of Split in Croatia. This unpredictable spread nearly caused emergency systems to collapse. Fortunately, a major trag...
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| description | Abstract As climate change continues, wildfire outbreaks are becoming more frequent and more difficult to control. In mid-July 2017, a forest fire spread from the forests to the city of Split in Croatia. This unpredictable spread nearly caused emergency systems to collapse. Fortunately, a major tragedy was avoided due to the composure of the responsible services and the help of citizens. Citizens helped to extinguish the fire and provided a large amount of disaster-related information on various social media platforms in a timely manner. In this paper, we addressed the problem of identifying useful Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and georeferenced social media crowdsourcing data to improve situational awareness during the forest fire in the city of Split. In addition, social media data were combined with other external data sources (e.g., Sentinel-2 satellite imagery) and authoritative data to establish geographic relationships between wildfire phenomena and social media messages. This article highlights the importance of using georeferenced social media data and provides a different perspective for disaster management by filling gaps in authoritative data. Analyses from the presented reconstruction of events from multiple sources impact a better understanding of these types of events, knowledge sharing, and insights into crowdsourcing processes that can be incorporated into disaster management. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d13299244a1148b9b8c5365812d702262022-12-21T22:35:56ZengSpringerOpenGeoenvironmental Disasters2197-86702021-04-018111610.1186/s40677-021-00181-3The role of crowdsourcing and social media in crisis mapping: a case study of a wildfire reaching Croatian City of SplitMarina Tavra0Ivan Racetin1Josip Peroš2Department of Geodesy and Geoinformatics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geodesy, University of SplitDepartment of Geodesy and Geoinformatics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geodesy, University of SplitDepartment of Geodesy and Geoinformatics, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geodesy, University of SplitAbstract As climate change continues, wildfire outbreaks are becoming more frequent and more difficult to control. In mid-July 2017, a forest fire spread from the forests to the city of Split in Croatia. This unpredictable spread nearly caused emergency systems to collapse. Fortunately, a major tragedy was avoided due to the composure of the responsible services and the help of citizens. Citizens helped to extinguish the fire and provided a large amount of disaster-related information on various social media platforms in a timely manner. In this paper, we addressed the problem of identifying useful Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and georeferenced social media crowdsourcing data to improve situational awareness during the forest fire in the city of Split. In addition, social media data were combined with other external data sources (e.g., Sentinel-2 satellite imagery) and authoritative data to establish geographic relationships between wildfire phenomena and social media messages. This article highlights the importance of using georeferenced social media data and provides a different perspective for disaster management by filling gaps in authoritative data. Analyses from the presented reconstruction of events from multiple sources impact a better understanding of these types of events, knowledge sharing, and insights into crowdsourcing processes that can be incorporated into disaster management.https://doi.org/10.1186/s40677-021-00181-3CrowdsourcingDisasterForest fireGeosocial data mining, citizen science |
| spellingShingle | Marina Tavra Ivan Racetin Josip Peroš The role of crowdsourcing and social media in crisis mapping: a case study of a wildfire reaching Croatian City of Split Geoenvironmental Disasters Crowdsourcing Disaster Forest fire Geosocial data mining, citizen science |
| title | The role of crowdsourcing and social media in crisis mapping: a case study of a wildfire reaching Croatian City of Split |
| title_full | The role of crowdsourcing and social media in crisis mapping: a case study of a wildfire reaching Croatian City of Split |
| title_fullStr | The role of crowdsourcing and social media in crisis mapping: a case study of a wildfire reaching Croatian City of Split |
| title_full_unstemmed | The role of crowdsourcing and social media in crisis mapping: a case study of a wildfire reaching Croatian City of Split |
| title_short | The role of crowdsourcing and social media in crisis mapping: a case study of a wildfire reaching Croatian City of Split |
| title_sort | role of crowdsourcing and social media in crisis mapping a case study of a wildfire reaching croatian city of split |
| topic | Crowdsourcing Disaster Forest fire Geosocial data mining, citizen science |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40677-021-00181-3 |
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