Rapid prototyping for wildlife and ecological monitoring

IEEE Systems Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 198-209

  Huang, Jyh How ^a   Chen, Ying Yu ^b   Huang, Yu Te ^b   Lin, Po Yen ^a   Chen, Yi Chao ^b   Lin, Yi Fu ^b   Yen, Shih Ching ^c   Huang, Polly ^a   Chen, Ling Jyh ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

GPS; Opportunistic networks; Wildlife tracking; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; ECOLOGICAL MONITORING; GPS; LONG TERM; LONG TERM MONITORING; MONITORING NETWORK; MONITORING SYSTEM; OPPORTUNISTIC NETWORKS; POTENTIAL PROBLEMS; RAPID PROTOTYPE; SHORT PERIODS; SHORT TERM; SYSTEM FAILURES;

ANIMALS; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; DISEASE CONTROL; ECOLOGY; JOB ANALYSIS; RAPID PROTOTYPING; SENSOR NETWORKS; VETERINARY MEDICINE; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

MONITORING;

EID: 77953568358     PISSN: 19328184     EISSN: 19379234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2010.2047294     Document Type: Article

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