Real-time spatial location tracking of construction resources in lay down yards

Construction Research Congress 2010: Innovation for Reshaping Construction Practice - Proceedings of the 2010 Construction Research Congress

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 112-121

  Venugopal, Manu ^a   Cheng, Tao ^a   Teizer, Jochen ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Automation; Data collection; Sensors; Tracking; Ultra wideband

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION ENVIRONMENT; CONSTRUCTION RESOURCE; DATA COLLECTION; FIELD TRIAL; GROUND TRUTH; IN-FIELD; POSITIONING TECHNOLOGIES; REAL-TIME LOCATION; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; ROBOTIC TOTAL STATION; TIME-SPATIAL; TRACKING; TRACKING APPLICATION; UWB SYSTEM;

ASSET MANAGEMENT; DATA ACQUISITION; REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH;

BROADBAND NETWORKS;

EID: 77956299587     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/41109(373)12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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