Applications of Social Media in Hydroinformatics: A Survey
It addresses the problem of leveraging social media for water-related applications for hydroinformatics researchers and managers, but it is incremental as it primarily surveys and structures existing knowledge.
This survey paper tackles the integration of social media data into hydroinformatics by proposing a 4W model and methodological structure to organize applications, and it provides an overview of research in areas like water management and disaster response without reporting specific numerical results.
Floods of research and practical applications employ social media data for a wide range of public applications, including environmental monitoring, water resource managing, disaster and emergency response.Hydroinformatics can benefit from the social media technologies with newly emerged data, techniques and analytical tools to handle large datasets, from which creative ideas and new values could be mined.This paper first proposes a 4W (What, Why, When, hoW) model and a methodological structure to better understand and represent the application of social media to hydroinformatics, then provides an overview of academic research of applying social media to hydroinformatics such as water environment, water resources, flood, drought and water Scarcity management. At last,some advanced topics and suggestions of water related social media applications from data collection, data quality management, fake news detection, privacy issues, algorithms and platforms was present to hydroinformatics managers and researchers based on previous discussion.