%ATsou, Ming-Hsiang%AJung, Chin-Te%AAllen, Christopher%AYang, Jiue-An%AHan, Su%ASptizberg, Brian%ADozier, Jessica%D2017%I %K %MOSTI ID: 10065958 %PMedium: X %TBuilding a Real-Time Geo-Targeted Event Observation (Geo) Viewer for Disaster Management and Situation Awareness %XSituation awareness plays an important role in disaster response and emergency management. Displaying real-time location-based social media messages along with videos, pictures, and hashtags during a disaster event could help first responders improve their situation awareness. A geo-targeted event observation (Geo) Viewer was developed for monitoring real-time social media messages in target areas with four major functions: (1) real-time display of geo-tagged tweets within the target area; (2) interactive mapping functions; (3) spatial, text, and temporal search functions using keywords, spatial boundaries, or dates; and (4) manual labeling and text-tagging of messages. Different from traditional web GIS maps, the user interface design of GeoViewer provides the interactive display of multimedia content and maps. The front-end user interface to visualize and query tweets is built with open source programming libraries using server-side MongoDB. GeoViewer is built for assisting emergency responses and disaster management tasks by tracking disaster event impacts, recovery activities, and residents’ needs in the target region. Country unknown/Code not availablehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57336-6_7OSTI-MSA