FireWxNet: A multi-tiered portable wireless system for monitoring weather conditions in wildland fire environments

MobiSys 2006 - Fourth International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 28-41

  Hartung, Carl ^a   Han, Richard ^a   Seielstad, Carl ^b   Holbrook, Saxon ^b  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Applications; Deployments; Fire; Forest Fires; Wireless Sensor Networks

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; DATA ACQUISITION; FIRE CONTROL SYSTEMS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION; WEATHER MODIFICATION;

DEPLOYMENTS; FOREST FIRES; WEATHER CONDITIONS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33748974964     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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