Energy-aware portable video communication system design for wildlife activity monitoring

IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 25-37

  He, Zhihai ^a   Eggert, Jay ^a   Cheng, Wenye ^a   Zhao, Xiwen ^a   Millspaugh, Joshua ^b   Moll, Remington ^b   Beringer, Jeff ^c   Sartwell, Joel ^c  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Embedded system; Energy minimization; Environmental tracking; Video coding

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY MONITORING; BEHAVIOR PATTERNS; DESIGN ISSUES; ENERGY CONSUMPTION.; ENERGY CONSUMPTIONS; ENERGY MINIMIZATION; ENERGY MINIMIZATIONS; ENERGY-AWARE; ENERGY-EFFICIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL TRACKING; EXTRA DIMENSIONS; NEW APPROACHES; PORTABLE VIDEOS; POWER CONSUMPTIONS; RATE-DISTORTION; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENTS; SCIENTIFIC DATUM; SENSOR DATUM; SENSOR SYSTEMS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; SYSTEM DESIGNS; VIDEO CODING; WILDLIFE SPECIES;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DESIGN; ELECTRIC DISTORTION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MOTION ESTIMATION; PLANNING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; SIGNAL DISTORTION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 54249125078     PISSN: 1531636X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCAS.2008.923007     Document Type: Article

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