Improving Emergency Management With The Help Of A Georeferenced Digital
Wednesday, Jul. 11th 2012 1:38 PM
Researchers at the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) have developed a computer application that allows georeferenced images that have been uploaded to social networks on the Internet to be recovered, located on maps and organized like a comic to create a visual perspective of a specific story, such as a crisis situation or an emergency.
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