Agencies for perception in environmental monitoring

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1038-1050

  Amigoni, Francesco ^a   Brandolini, Arnaldo ^a   Caglioti, Vincenzo ^a   Di Lecce, Vincenzo ^b   Guerriero, Andrea ^b   Lazzaroni, Massimo ^c   Lombardi, Franco ^d   Ottoboni, Roberto ^a   Pasero, Eros ^d   Piuri, Vincenzo ^c   Scotti, Olga ^c   Somenzi, Damiano ^c  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Cooperative systems; Electromagnetic fields (EMFs); Mobile robots; Robot sensing systems; Sensor networks; Smart sensors

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; MOBILE ROBOTS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

COOPERATIVE SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ROBOT SENSING SYSTEM; SENSOR NETWORKS; SMART SENSORS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 33746341495     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2006.877747     Document Type: Article

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