Sensor systems on networked vehicles

Networks and Heterogeneous Media

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 223-247

  de Sousa, João Borges ^a   Maciel, Bernardo ^a   Pereira, Fernando Lobo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Active sensing; Autonomous vehicles; Networked vehicle systems; Sampling in field studies

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SENSING; AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; FIELD STUDIES; IN-FIELD; NETWORKED VEHICLES; SENSOR SYSTEMS; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES; UNDERWATER SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

UNMANNED VEHICLES;

EID: 67649954731     PISSN: 15561801     EISSN: 1556181X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/nhm.2009.4.223     Document Type: Article

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