2019, Jeitler, Astrik Veronika, Türkoglu, Alpin, Makarov, Denis, Jockers, Timo, Buchmüller, Juri F., Schlegel, Udo, Keim, Daniel A.

This paper presents RescueMark, a web-based visual analytics tool for analyzing disaster situations and guiding emergency response. In disaster situations operators must take quick and effective decisions to solve critical problems. RescueMark provides spatial, topic and temporal event exploration supporting decision making for resource allocation and determine damaged areas of the city. We describe the data analysis and visualization process of the social media data applied to extract the relevant information.