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DamageArbiter: A Multimodal Arbitration Framework for Disaster Damage Assessment from Street-View Imagery
Yifan Yang, Lei Zou, Wenjing Gong +6
Analyzing street-view imagery with computer vision models offers a promising approach for rapid, hyperlocal disaster damage assessment, but existing approaches typically rely on bl…
Predicting Healthcare System Visitation Flow by Integrating Hospital Attributes and Population Socioeconomics with Human Mobility Data
Binbin Lin, Lei Zou, Hao Tian +3
Healthcare visitation patterns are influenced by a complex interplay of hospital attributes, population socioeconomics, and spatial factors. However, existing research often adopts…
FlowsDT: A Geospatial Digital Twin for Navigating Urban Flood Dynamics
Debayan Mandal, Lei Zou, Abhinav Wadhwa +7
Communities worldwide increasingly confront flood hazards intensified by climate change, urban expansion, and environmental degradation. Addressing these challenges requires real-t…
Hyperlocal disaster damage assessment using bi-temporal street-view imagery and pre-trained vision models
Yifan Yang, Lei Zou, Bing Zhou +4
Street-view images offer unique advantages for disaster damage estimation as they capture impacts from a visual perspective and provide detailed, on-the-ground insights. Despite se…
Toward building next-generation Geocoding systems: a systematic review
Zhengcong Yin, Daniel W. Goldberg, Binbin Lin +11
Geocoding systems are widely used in both scientific research for spatial analysis and everyday life through location-based services. The quality of geocoded data significantly imp…
PRIME: A CyberGIS Platform for Resilience Inference Measurement and Enhancement
Debayan Mandal, Lei Zou, Rohan Singh Wilkho +6
In an era of increased climatic disasters, there is an urgent need to develop reliable frameworks and tools for evaluating and improving community resilience to climatic hazards at…
Understanding Human-COVID-19 Dynamics using Geospatial Big Data: A Systematic Literature Review
Binbin Lin, Lei Zou, Mingzheng Yang +5
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed human life. To mitigate the pandemic's impacts, different regions implemented various policies to contain COVID-19 and residents showed diverse re…
Sensing the Pulse of the Pandemic: Geovisualizing the Demographic Disparities of Public Sentiment toward COVID-19 through Social Media
Binbin Lina, Lei Zoua, Bo Zhao +4
Social media offers a unique lens to observe large-scale, spatial-temporal patterns of users reactions toward critical events. However, social media use varies across demographics,…
TopoBERT: Plug and Play Toponym Recognition Module Harnessing Fine-tuned BERT
Bing Zhou, Lei Zou, Yingjie Hu +2
Extracting precise geographical information from textual contents is crucial in a plethora of applications. For example, during hazardous events, a robust and unbiased toponym extr…
Social Media for Emergency Rescue: An Analysis of Rescue Requests on Twitter during Hurricane Harvey
Lei Zou, Danqing Liao, Nina S. N. Lam +5
Social media plays increasingly significant roles in disaster response, but effectively leveraging social media for rescue is challenging. This study analyzed rescue requests on Tw…
Revealing the Global Linguistic and Geographical Disparities of Public Awareness to Covid-19 Outbreak through Social Media
Binbin Lin, Lei Zou, Nick Duffield +7
The Covid-19 has presented an unprecedented challenge to public health worldwide. However, residents in different countries showed diverse levels of Covid-19 awareness during the o…