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| Author | Stathis G. Arapostathis | ||||
| Title | Instagrammers report about the deadly wildfires of East Attica, 2018, Greece: An introductory analytic assessment for disaster management purposes | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2019 | Publication | Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management | Abbreviated Journal | Iscram 2019 |
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| Keywords | volunteered geographic information (VGI), Instagram, social media, fires, disasters, disaster management | ||||
| Abstract | This article contributes to identifying the capabilities of Instagram when utilized as a source of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) for disaster management (DM) purposes. The geographic focus of this research is in the Mediterranean area. As case study, the fire event of East Attica 2018, Greece, was chosen. This major fire occurred on the 23rd of July 2018 and caused the death of 100 people, the injury of additional 164 while the total burnt area was about 1275,9ha. It is the deadliest in modern Greece?s history and the second deadliest at a global level, within the 21st century. About 15000 related photos along with the corresponding captions and timestamps were crawled from Instagram. An initial sample of about 1100, was analyzed, by using a certain methodology divided in certain steps, the most important of which include the classification of the information to certain categories, geo-referencing and the creation of graphs and maps that visualize the processed data. |
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| Address | Harokopio Univesrsity, Greece | ||||
| Corporate Author | Thesis | ||||
| Publisher | Iscram | Place of Publication | Valencia, Spain | Editor | Franco, Z.; González, J.J.; Canós, J.H. |
| Language | English | Summary Language | English | Original Title | |
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| ISSN | 2411-3387 | ISBN | 978-84-09-10498-7 | Medium | |
| Track | T6- Geospatial Technologies and Geographic Information Science for Crisis Management (GIS) | Expedition  |
Conference | 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2019) | |
| Notes | Approved | no | |||
| Call Number | Serial | 1978 | |||
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