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Displaying 3 of about 3 resultsThis paper presents an automated way to extract the damaged buildings images after earthquakes from social media platforms such as Twitter and thus identify the particular user posts containing such images. After significant earthquakes, we can see images posted on social media platforms by individuals and media agencies owing to the mass usage of…
GENEVA, 5 March 2012 - The UN Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström, and HE Yoichi Otabe, the Japanese Ambassador to the International Organizations in Geneva, announced today the start of consultations on a new international blueprint for reducing disaster losses in advance of the World Conference on Disaster Reduction…
GENEVA, 5 February 2013 - Heads of State, government ministers, parliamentarians, CEOs, scientists and civil society representatives will meet in Geneva in May to discuss a new global framework to reduce disaster risk.
Some 3,000 people are expected to attend this fourth session of the Global Platform which will be the last to take place before the Wor…