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Mohamed Nour, Mohd Alhajri, Elmoubasher A. B. A. Farag, Hamad E. Al-Romaihi, Mohamed Al-Thani, Salih Al-Marri and Elena Savoia
This case study is the first to be developed in the Middle East region to document what happened during the response to the 2013 MERS outbreak in Qatar. It provides a description of key epidemiologic events and news released from a prime daily newspaper ...
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Xiaohui Liu, Bandana Kar, Francisco Alejandro Montiel Ishino, Chaoyang Zhang and Faustine Williams
While Twitter has been touted as a preeminent source of up-to-date information on hazard events, the reliability of tweets is still a concern. Our previous publication extracted relevant tweets containing information about the 2013 Colorado flood event a...
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Mohd Faizal Omar,Mohd Nasrun Mohd Nawi,Jastini Mohd Jamil,Ani Munirah Mohamad,Saslina Kamaruddin
Pág. pp. 130 - 140
Flooding has become one of the most rapidly growing types of natural disaster that has spread around the globe. It is is one of the major natural hazards in many countries and mostly affected in the low-lying or flood prone areas. In order to minimize lo...
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Raffaele Albano and Aurelia Sole
In the last decade, real-time access to data and the use of high-resolution spatial information have provided scientists and engineers with valuable information to help them understand risk. At the same time, there has been a rapid growth of novel and cu...
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Christine Große
The protection of infrastructure that is critical to society?s functionality, survival and progression has gained significance because of its large-scale and interdependent nature. This complex system-of-system (SoS) imposes extensive requirements on gov...
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Gregorio Rosario Michel, Santiago Muñoz Tapia, Fernando Manzano Aybar, Vladimir Guzmán Javier and Joep Crompvoets
In recent years, a growing number of stakeholders have been taking part in the generation and delivery of geospatial information and services to reduce the impact of severe natural disasters on the communities. This is mainly due to a huge demand for acc...
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Adwitiya Mukhopadhyay, Aryadevi Remanidevi Devidas, Venkat P. Rangan and Maneesha Vinodini Ramesh
Addressing the inadequacy of medical facilities in rural communities and the high number of patients affected by ailments that need to be treated immediately is of prime importance for all countries. The various recent healthcare emergency situations bri...
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Malcolm L. Spaulding, Annette Grilli, Chris Damon, Reza Hashemi, Soroush Kouhi and Grover Fugate
Many coastal communities in the US use base flood elevation (BFE) maps for the 100-year return period, specified on Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), to design structures and infrastructure. The FIRMs are incre...
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Chang-Min Kim, Ellen J. Hong, Kyungyong Chung and Roy C. Park
As people communicate with each other, they use gestures and facial expressions as a means to convey and understand emotional state. Non-verbal means of communication are essential to understanding, based on external clues to a person?s emotional state. ...
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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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Okhumode H. Yakubu
Residents of Port Harcourt in Rivers State, Nigeria, and its environs have since the last quarter of 2016 been experiencing adverse environmental impacts of particle (soot) pollution. This ?double air pollution burden??the unresolved prevailing widesprea...
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Sota Aoki, Yohei Fujinami, Pongsathorn Raksincharoensak and Roman Henze
This paper describes the development of an Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) which will allow drivers to avoid collisions with an oncoming vehicle from an occluded area when turning right at intersections in left-hand traffic. Connected vehicles, ...
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Hafiz Suliman Munawar, Siddra Qayyum, Fahim Ullah and Samad Sepasgozar
Big data is the concept of enormous amounts of data being generated daily in different fields due to the increased use of technology and internet sources. Despite the various advancements and the hopes of better understanding, big data management and ana...
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