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Robert B. Sowby and Braxton W. Porter
Even though drinking water utilities are not meant to fight wildfires, they quickly become stakeholders, if not first responders, when their resources are needed for firefighting. The August 2023 wildfires on the island of Maui, Hawaii, USA, have highlig...
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James Durham, Sudipta Chowdhury and Ammar Alzarrad
Effectively harnessing the power of social media data for disaster management requires sophisticated analysis methods and frameworks. This research focuses on understanding the contextual information present in social media posts during disasters and dev...
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Jung-Hong Hong and Yi-Tin Shi
Smart cities represent a new perspective on modern urban development. They involve an information infrastructure environment with application intelligence to improve operational efficiency and welfare effectively. However, understanding how to overcome t...
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Hao Li, Zhitao Chen, Yanming Lu, Peng Li, Qi-Ang Wang, Zichen Liu and Shu Li
Tunnel structures account for la large proportion of the structures in mountain highway transportation systems. Most tunnels are located in remote areas in which the geological conditions are complex and harsh and in which the layout of the management fa...
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Yaqiu Zhu, Bangyou Zheng, Qiyou Luo, Weihua Jiao and Yadong Yang
Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is an economically important crop in China, and responses of cotton yield in different regions to separate and joint changes in natural and anthropogenic factors are the foundation for sustainable development under climate ...
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Jiansong Tang, Ruijia Yang, Qiangsheng Dai, Gaoteng Yuan and Yingchi Mao
Climate change has increased the frequency of various types of meteorological disasters in recent years. Finding the primary factors that limit the emergency response capability of meteorological disasters through the evaluation of that capability and pr...
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Tanzina Afrin, Lucy G. Aragon, Zhibin Lin and Nita Yodo
Maintaining smooth traffic during disaster evacuation is a lifesaving step. Traffic resilience is often used to define the ability of a roadway during disaster evacuation to withstand and recover its functionality from disturbances in terms of traffic fl...
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Bomi Lee, Aetti Kang and Sungil Ham
The damage caused by disasters is increasing worldwide, with hundreds of thousands of deaths due to the occurrence of complex large-scale disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake and the 2004 Indian tsunami. South Korea has also experienced human casu...
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Alberto Vavassori, Daniela Carrion, Benito Zaragozi and Federica Migliaccio
Timely mapping of flooded areas is critical to several emergency management tasks including response and recovery activities. In fact, flood crisis maps embed key information for an effective response to the natural disaster by delineating its spatial ex...
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Sharad Mehta, John Peach and Andrew Weinert
Aerial surveys using LiDAR systems can play a vital role in the quantitative assessment of infrastructure damage caused by hurricanes, floods, and other natural disasters. GmAPD LiDAR provides high-resolution 3D point-cloud data which enables the surveyo...
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