Natural disasters caused by natural processes may lead to significant losses in terms of property and human lives. The timely collection of information about the damage caused by natural disasters is very important and can help reduce losses and speed recovery. Social media has become an important source of information for communication and dissemination of information in emergencies. Under such circumstances, inferring disaster events through the information available in social media will be very useful Satellite data has also been widely used to analyze the impact of natural disasters on the surface of the earth. In this paper, a detailed analysis of how social media and satellite imagery can be used to detect natural disasters is discussed.
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