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Table 1 Overview of collected datasets

From: The role of crowdsourcing and social media in crisis mapping: a case study of a wildfire reaching Croatian City of Split

Dataset

Source

Data type

Description

Dataset purpose

Crowmap data

Crowdmap platform

VGI

Citizens entries with time, location, and description

Mapping

Social media data

Twitter and Facebook

Crowdsourcing

Posts containing selected keywords related to event and location

Mapping

Public Fire Department of Split (PFDS) data

PFDS

Authoritative data

Data from a call centre which contain phone number, time of the call and short description noted by the call centre agent

Mapping

Satellite images

Sentinel-2

Authoritative data

Multispectral satellite images of the study area from the time before and after the fire

Verification

Natural protection and rescue directorate (NPRD) official data

NPRD

Authoritative data

Shapefile polygon of burned area

Verification