An Integrated Framework for Disaster Event Analysis in Big Data Environments

Abstract

Today world has witnessed the catastrophic consequences of natural and man-made disasters are demanding the urgent need for more research to advance fundamental knowledge and innovation for disaster prevention, mitigation and management. At the same time, the world is in the age of the Big Data revolution which holds the potential to mitigate the effects of disaster events by enabling access to critical real time information. Thus, in this paper an integrated framework for analyzing disaster events by using the Big Data analytics is proposed. The proposed framework shall address three key components to perform data organization, data integration and analysis, information presentation to users by utilizing Big Data with respect to disaster events. In doing so, the paper shall create a disaster domain-specific search engine using co-occurring theory and Markov chain concepts for preparing impacts of disaster attacks to make the society better aware of the situations. Specifically, stochastic clustering with constraints is used to automatically extract disaster events by defining the set of structural attributes. Some illustrative simulations are shown by using Big Data sources for the Great East Japan earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster events of 2011.