Cross-referencing Social Media and Public Surveillance Camera Data for Disaster Response

2019/01/18 by Chittayong Surakitbanharn, Surakitbanharn, Chittayong, Calvin Yau +19
Computer Science · Medicine · Social Sciences · #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #Data-Driven Disease Surveillance #Disaster Management and Resilience #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Public Relations and Crisis Communication #Social and Information Networks (cs.SI) #cs.CV #cs.SI

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1901.06459

Best Paper award in IEEE HST Conference 2018

openalex publication_date 2019/01/18 · arxiv created 2019/01/19 · arxiv updated 2019/01/23 · openalex created_date 2022/07/30 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Physical media (like surveillance cameras) and social media (like Instagram and Twitter) may both be useful in attaining on-the-ground information during an emergency or disaster situation. However, the intersection and reliability of both surveillance cameras and social media during a natural disaster are not fully understood. To address this gap, we tested whether social media is of utility when physical surveillance cameras went off-line during Hurricane Irma in 2017. Specifically, we collected and compared geo-tagged Instagram and Twitter posts in the state of Florida during times and in areas where public surveillance cameras went off-line. We report social media content and frequency and content to determine the utility for emergency managers or first responders during a natural disaster.

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