Contextual Enrichment of Crowds from Mobile Phone Data through Multimodal Geo-Social Media Analysis

Autor: Klára Honzák, Sebastian Schmidt, Bernd Resch, Philipp Ruthensteiner
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Vol 13, Iss 10, p 350 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2220-9964
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi13100350
Popis: The widespread use of mobile phones and social media platforms provides valuable information about users’ behavior and activities. Mobile phone data are rich on positional information, but lack semantic context. Conversely, geo-social media data reveal users’ opinions and activities, but are rather sparse in space and time. In the context of emergency management, both data types have been considered separately. To exploit their complementary nature and potential for emergency management, this paper introduces a novel methodology for improving situational awareness with the focus on urban events. For crowd detection, a spatial hot spot analysis of mobile phone data is used. The analysis of geo-social media data involves building spatio-temporal topic-sentiment clusters of posts. The results of the spatio-temporal contextual enrichment include unusual crowds associated with topics and sentiments derived from the analyzed geo-social media data. This methodology is demonstrated using the case study of the Vienna Pride. The results show how crowds change over time in terms of their location, size, topics discussed, and sentiments.
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