TY - JOUR
T1 - Application of Social Sensors in Natural Disasters Emergency Management
T2 - A Review
AU - Shi, Kaize
AU - Peng, Xueping
AU - Lu, Hao
AU - Zhu, Yifan
AU - Niu, Zhendong
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2023/12/1
Y1 - 2023/12/1
N2 - Natural disasters are public emergencies characterized by suddenness, universality, and nonconventionality. Realizing the early warning, monitoring, and intervention of natural disasters and their derivative social impacts is significant for reducing the disasters' damage and benefits the maintenance of social stability. Social sensors are ubiquitous sensors based on social network platforms. It uses the concepts and methods of physical space to mine social signals that integrate human perception and intelligence in cyberspace. Compared with traditional physical sensors, social sensors represent a crucial data acquisition channel in the emergency management of natural disasters and have the advantages of real time, comprehensive coverage, low cost, and flexible deployment. This article reviews the application of social sensors in natural disasters emergency management. We summarize the application functions of social sensors into three categories: natural disaster situation awareness and event detection, disaster information dissemination and communication, and disaster sentiment analysis and public opinion mining. Based on the above functions, this article analyzes the research status, data, technical methods, and application systems. Finally, this article proposes a research trend of applying social sensors in natural disaster emergency management according to the requirements of real scenarios.
AB - Natural disasters are public emergencies characterized by suddenness, universality, and nonconventionality. Realizing the early warning, monitoring, and intervention of natural disasters and their derivative social impacts is significant for reducing the disasters' damage and benefits the maintenance of social stability. Social sensors are ubiquitous sensors based on social network platforms. It uses the concepts and methods of physical space to mine social signals that integrate human perception and intelligence in cyberspace. Compared with traditional physical sensors, social sensors represent a crucial data acquisition channel in the emergency management of natural disasters and have the advantages of real time, comprehensive coverage, low cost, and flexible deployment. This article reviews the application of social sensors in natural disasters emergency management. We summarize the application functions of social sensors into three categories: natural disaster situation awareness and event detection, disaster information dissemination and communication, and disaster sentiment analysis and public opinion mining. Based on the above functions, this article analyzes the research status, data, technical methods, and application systems. Finally, this article proposes a research trend of applying social sensors in natural disaster emergency management according to the requirements of real scenarios.
KW - Decision support system
KW - emergency management
KW - parallel system
KW - social network analysis
KW - social sensor
KW - sudden natural disaster
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85140715421&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/TCSS.2022.3211552
DO - 10.1109/TCSS.2022.3211552
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85140715421
SN - 2329-924X
VL - 10
SP - 3143
EP - 3158
JO - IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
JF - IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
IS - 6
ER -
