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Global trends in satellite-based emergency mapping

Overview of attention for article published in Science, July 2016
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Title
Global trends in satellite-based emergency mapping
Published in
Science, July 2016
DOI 10.1126/science.aad8728
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Authors

Stefan Voigt, Fabio Giulio-Tonolo, Josh Lyons, Jan Kučera, Brenda Jones, Tobias Schneiderhan, Gabriel Platzeck, Kazuya Kaku, Manzul Kumar Hazarika, Lorant Czaran, Suju Li, Wendi Pedersen, Godstime Kadiri James, Catherine Proy, Denis Macharia Muthike, Jerome Bequignon, Debarati Guha-Sapir

Abstract

Over the past 15 years, scientists and disaster responders have increasingly used satellite-based Earth observations for global rapid assessment of disaster situations. We review global trends in satellite rapid response and emergency mapping from 2000 to 2014, analyzing more than 1000 incidents in which satellite monitoring was used for assessing major disaster situations. We provide a synthesis of spatial patterns and temporal trends in global satellite emergency mapping efforts and show that satellite-based emergency mapping is most intensively deployed in Asia and Europe and follows well the geographic, physical, and temporal distributions of global natural disasters. We present an outlook on the future use of Earth observation technology for disaster response and mitigation by putting past and current developments into context and perspective.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 2 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 200 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 45 22%
Student > Ph. D. Student 32 16%
Student > Master 27 13%
Other 11 5%
Student > Doctoral Student 9 4%
Other 37 18%
Unknown 43 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences 27 13%
Engineering 25 12%
Environmental Science 23 11%
Computer Science 16 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 14 7%
Other 43 21%
Unknown 56 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 52. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 September 2023.
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#806,886
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Outputs from Science
#15,700
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#15,682
of 365,671 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#280
of 961 outputs
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