Canopy closure estimates with GreenOrbs: Sustainable sensing in the forest

Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, SenSys 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 99-112

  Mo, Lufeng ^a   He, Yuan ^b   Liu, Yunhao ^b   Zhao, Jizhong ^a   Tang, Shao Jie ^c   Li, Xiang Yang ^c   Dai, Guojun ^d  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^c ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d HANGZHOU DIANZI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Canopy closure; Deployment; Design; Wireless sensor network

Indexed keywords

CANOPY CLOSURE; CANOPY CLOSURES; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; DATA COLLECTION; DEPLOYMENT; DISTRIBUTED CALIBRATION; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; EVALUATION RESULTS; FOREST INVENTORY; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; HUMAN SUPERVISION; LIGHT WEIGHT; NODE-STATE; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; REAL-TIME SURVEILLANCE; SENSOR MOTES; SENSORY DATA; TRAINING PROCESS; WIRELESS SENSOR;

ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; MACHINE DESIGN; SENSOR NETWORKS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

EID: 74549201690     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1644038.1644049     Document Type: Conference Paper

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