Crowdsourcing for forensic disaster investigations: Hurricane Harvey case study

Faxi Yuan () and Rui Liu ()
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Faxi Yuan: University of Florida
Rui Liu: University of Florida

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 2018, vol. 93, issue 3, No 20, 1529-1546

Abstract: Abstract A critical prerequisite of risk prevention measures for natural hazards is from the results of forensic disaster investigations (FDIs). The current studies of the FDIs are limited by data issues including data availability and data reliability. The applications of crowdsourcing method in natural disasters indicate the potential to provide data support for the FDIs. However, there is very limited existing research on the use of crowdsourcing data for the FDIs. Following the requirements published by the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk program for FDIs, this paper establishes the process map for conducting the FDIs by scenario analysis approach with the crowdsourcing and crowdsensor data. Hurricane Harvey is used as the case study to implement the process map. The results show that the use of crowdsourcing data for the FDIs is feasible. Though this paper takes practical measures for improving the reliability of crowdsourcing data (i.e., little data size) in the case study, future research can focus on the development of advanced algorithm for the crowdsourcing data quality validation.

Keywords: Crowdsourcing; Crowdsensor; Forensic disaster investigations; Data-driven; Scenario; Hurricane Harvey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/s11069-018-3366-0

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