Reid, Elaine D.

Reid, Elaine D. Social Network Collaboration for Crisis Response Operations: Developing a Situational Awareness (SA) Tool to Improve Haiti’s Interagency Relief Efforts. Master’s Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, 2011. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2011/June/11Jun_Reid.pdf (accessed 4 August 2011).

This thesis develops a new model and methodology, based on data collected following the Haiti earthquake that combines both text-mining methods with 3D graphics. This interpretive approach provides a qualitative improvement on the currently available graphic depictions of such data. This effort can eventually help to create a real-time feedback loop to inform decision maker’s organizational awareness, improve organization-to-organization collaboration, and perhaps better allocate resources to areas requiring relief operations.