Navy Explores Potential of Social Media Crowdsourcing in Disaster Response
Sarah Rich had an article published in Government Technology that covers the U.S. Navy's selection of Modus Operandi to begin developing crowdsourcing situational awareness software that leverages data from social media.
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“'We are taking the social media information which is going to be creating a very large data set of different kinds of feeds,'” Little said. 'We are extracting information out of that, putting it together into a common operating picture so that now a commander has more sensor data available to him or her.'”