Profiling Flood Risk through Crowdsourced Flood Level Reports

• Main Authors: Estuar, Ma. Regina Justina E, Victorino, John Noel C
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2014
• Subjects: Floods; Crowdsourcing; Cities and towns; Sensors; Risk management; Monitoring; Educational institutions; Computer Sciences; Databases and Information Systems; Education; Emergency and Disaster Management
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/discs-faculty-pubs/13; https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7021800/keywords#keywords
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Disaster risk reduction and management, which includes flood risk management, is among the top priorities in the Philippines. In the process of contributing to flood monitoring and public awareness, FloodPatrol, an Android mobile phone application, allows the "crowd" to report flood levels...