In this study, we present a fully automated procedure to analyze online news using data mining techniques. It is then used to compile and continually update a geohazard database. The procedure is based on new technologies that publish news on the internet, i.e., the news is analyzed, georeferenced and attributed to a category of geohazards (the current categories are landslides, floods and earthquakes). A continuous flow of georeferenced events is established to populate and update the geodatabase automatically and in near-real time. We tested the procedure for 2 years at a national scale, creating a geodatabase containing more than 20,000 news items concerning geohazards that occurred in Italy. This procedure enables continuous feedback from events in the real world, such that information about geohazards can be fully exploited rapidly (compared to traditional techniques based on remote sensing, field surveys and historical inventories).
Web data mining for automatic inventory of geohazards at national scale / Battistini A.; Segoni S.; Manzo G.; Catani F.; Casagli N.. - In: APPLIED GEOGRAPHY. - ISSN 0143-6228. - STAMPA. - 43:(2013), pp. 147-158. [10.1016/j.apgeog.2013.06.012]
Web data mining for automatic inventory of geohazards at national scale
BATTISTINI, ALESSANDRO;SEGONI, SAMUELE;MANZO, GOFFREDO;CATANI, FILIPPO;CASAGLI, NICOLA
2013
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In this study, we present a fully automated procedure to analyze online news using data mining techniques. It is then used to compile and continually update a geohazard database. The procedure is based on new technologies that publish news on the internet, i.e., the news is analyzed, georeferenced and attributed to a category of geohazards (the current categories are landslides, floods and earthquakes). A continuous flow of georeferenced events is established to populate and update the geodatabase automatically and in near-real time. We tested the procedure for 2 years at a national scale, creating a geodatabase containing more than 20,000 news items concerning geohazards that occurred in Italy. This procedure enables continuous feedback from events in the real world, such that information about geohazards can be fully exploited rapidly (compared to traditional techniques based on remote sensing, field surveys and historical inventories).File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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