Applying wearable sensors to avalanche rescue

Computers and Graphics (Pergamon)

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 839-847

  Michahelles, Florian ^a   Matter, Peter ^a   Schmidt, Albrecht ^b   Schiele, Bernt ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Avalanche rescue; Mobile application; Personal assistance; Situation awareness; Wearable computing; Wearable sensing

Indexed keywords

RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; VISUALIZATION;

WEARABLE SENSORS;

SENSORS;

EID: 0242406800     PISSN: 00978493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cag.2003.08.008     Document Type: Article

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